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Animal Research Report | Ocean Animals and Marine Biology Informational Writing

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Lucky Chlover Writing
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Description

Engage your students with this research and writing report template featuring sea animals. These templates contain graphic organizers to differentiate and scaffold to meet the needs of your students. The templates will fit in nicely with your classroom, whether you're practicing research skills or taking a trip to the zoo!

Sea animals are always an engaging topic for students. This informative essay contains guided research. Students are assigned a sea animal and must complete the research pages. Once this is done, they can begin the explanatory essay assignment!

This resource is differentiated, so students of all levels from grades 3-5 have a scaffolded path to their essays. The kiddos love this resource, and they love learning about the animals in the ocean!

This product is black-and-white; very printer-friendly!

Check out the bundle for an entire research project!

This resource includes:

  • Directions
  • Quick tips with possible websites to use
  • Means to assign animals to students
  • Assignment description for students
  • Research guide:
    • Basic information
    • Physical characteristics
    • Way of Life
    • Miscellaneous
    • Compare/Contrast to other student's animal
    • Quotes
    • Interesting Facts
    • Sources

  • Level 1 Writing
    • Fill-in-the-blank style
    • Paragraphs and essays mostly written for students

  • Level 2 Writing
    • Some support
    • Transition, hook, and thesis explanation pages
    • Gives some guidance for writing

  • Level 3 Writing
    • Blank essay template
    • Students do not have much of a guide

  • Peer/self writing checklist
  • AIR test adapted rubric for teacher
  • Essay writing paper

Ocean animals included:

  • Orca
  • Stingray
  • Bottlenose dolphin
  • Great white shark
  • Beluga whale
  • Pufferfish
  • Electric eel
  • Clownfish
  • Jellyfish
  • Blue whale
  • Lobster
  • Barracuda
  • Manatee
  • Fangtooth
  • Octopus
  • Flying fish
  • Giant squid
  • Swordfish
  • Lionfish
  • Hermit crab
  • Seahorse
  • Starfish
  • Sea turtle
  • Regal tang

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Total Pages
38 pages
Answer Key
Rubric only
Teaching Duration
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Last updated May 15th, 2019
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Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

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