Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
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Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
Read Works
Read Works: Our Constitution
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about the Constitution of the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Five W's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that helps students identify the 5 W's-- Who- What-When-Where-Why-- and How. This is helpful in summarizing reading selections, historical events and creating news...
Other
Woodward English: Questions Words
Woodward English: Questions Words uses pictures and words to answer the 5 W's and H questions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sea Creatures
This video segment from Nature features various sea creatures. [5:52]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Jane Jacobs
Learn about Jane Jacobs, an activist who worked to save the neighborhoods of New York City in this video segment from New York Voices. [5:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bamboo Mountain
In this video segment from Nature, researchers study pandas in an effort to halt their decline in population. [5:37]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Social and Historical Perspectives of Dogs
Learn more about the theory that dogs evolved from wolves in this video from Nature. [5:03]
DLTK
Kidzone: Gingerbread Man Theme Unit
This five day theme unit for the Gingerbread Man is full of great ideas. It is suitable for children in preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary. From Language Arts to Math, this site has it all!