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The Puffin Question Chart

Find answers to a class's questions about puffins in a short fact page, then write answers in whole sentences.

Grade 1ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.1.8

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students gather facts from a short text to answer questions.
Students tell whether a source answers a question.
Students write the answer to a question in a whole sentence.

How to use

Read Puffin Facts aloud with students first. Let them answer on their own, then talk about where they could look for answers the fact page does not give.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.1.8

With adult help, recall information from experience or gather it from provided sources to answer a question.

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The Puffin Question Chart

Use a fact page to answer questions.

Read Puffin Facts

Mr. Patel's class made a chart of questions about puffins. Read Puffin Facts to find the answers. A grown-up can help you read.

Puffin Facts

1A puffin is a small bird that lives by the sea. It has a black and white body, orange feet, and a colorful beak.

2Puffins are good swimmers. They flap their wings to swim under the water. They catch small fish to eat. A puffin can carry many fish in its beak at one time.

3In spring, puffins come to land to lay eggs. Many puffins dig a hole in the ground for a nest. A baby puffin is called a puffling.

Find the answers

Use Puffin Facts to answer the questions on the class chart.

Tariq asks: What do puffins eat? Which paragraph should he read to find the answer?

A. Paragraph 1
B. Paragraph 2
C. Paragraph 3

Help the class fill in the chart. Write a word from the word bank in each blank.

Word bank: puffling · purple · bird · fish · orange

What kind of animal is a puffin?
A puffin is a small .
What color are a puffin's feet?
Its feet are .
What is a baby puffin called?
A baby puffin is called a .

Underline the sentence that answers this question: How do many puffins make a nest?

Puffins are good swimmers.In spring, puffins come to land to lay eggs.Many puffins dig a hole in the ground for a nest.A baby puffin is called a puffling.

Match each question from the chart to its answer.

When do puffins come to land?
What colors are on a puffin's body?
What can a puffin carry in its beak?
What does a puffin's beak look like?

A. black and white
B. colorful
C. in spring
D. many fish

Which sentence is the best answer to this question: Why do puffins come to land in spring?

A. They come to land to find fish.
B. They come to land to sleep at night.
C. They come to land to lay eggs.
D. They come to land to dry their wings.

Check the source and write

Some questions are not answered in Puffin Facts. Decide which ones, then write your own answers.

Can Puffin Facts answer each question? Sort the questions.

What sound does a puffin make?Where do puffins live?Are puffins good swimmers?How big is a puffin egg?How long does a puffin live?What do puffins eat?