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Team Blue Researches Lifeguards

Follow a team that uses a book, a poster and an interview to research lifeguards, then sort their facts and plan a page for a class book.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.2.7

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 8 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 2
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students tell which source gave each fact in a shared research project.
  • Students sort research notes into the parts of a class book page.
  • Students write report sentences that use facts from more than one source.

How to use

Read Team Blue's research aloud and list the three sources on the board. Students answer the questions on their own; afterwards, small groups can choose a town job and write their own research questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.2.7

Take part in shared research and writing projects, such as reading several books on one topic to write a report or recording science observations.

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Team Blue Researches Lifeguards

Use three sources to answer questions and plan a class book page.

Read Team Blue's research

Team Blue is researching a job for a class book. Read what they found.

Team Blue's Lifeguard Research

1Team Blue is writing a page about lifeguards for our class book, Jobs in Our Town. First, we wrote three questions. Then we looked for answers in a library book, on a poster at the town pool, and in an interview with Ms. Ortiz, a lifeguard at the pool.

2Question 1: What does a lifeguard do?
The library book says lifeguards help keep swimmers safe. They help anyone who is in trouble in the water. Ms. Ortiz told us, "I watch the water the whole time I am on duty."

3Question 2: Why do lifeguards sit in tall chairs?
Ms. Ortiz said a tall chair helps her see the whole pool. The library book says the same thing.

4Question 3: What does a lifeguard carry?
The poster at the pool shows a lifeguard with a whistle and a red rescue tube. The library book says a swimmer in trouble can hold on to a rescue tube and float.

5Then Team Blue had a new question: How do people learn to be lifeguards? None of our sources answered it, so Kenji will look for another book next week.

Use the sources

Answer each question with Team Blue's research.

1.
What did Team Blue do first?
  • A. They talked with Ms. Ortiz at the pool.
  • B. They wrote three questions to answer.
  • C. They read the poster at the town pool.
  • D. They wrote their page for the class book.
2.
Where did Team Blue find each fact? Sort the facts by source.
Lifeguards help keep swimmers safe.A lifeguard watches the water the whole time on duty.A swimmer in trouble can hold on to a rescue tube and float.A lifeguard has a whistle and a red rescue tube.
Library bookPool posterInterview with Ms. Ortiz
3.
The library book and Ms. Ortiz gave the same answer to one question. Which question was it?
  • A. What does a lifeguard do?
  • B. What does a lifeguard carry?
  • C. Why do lifeguards sit in tall chairs?
  • D. How do people learn to be lifeguards?
4.
Why will Kenji look for another book next week?
  • A. No source answered the team's new question.
  • B. Ms. Ortiz said the library book had a mistake.
  • C. The poster at the pool was too hard to read.
  • D. The team lost its notes from the interview.

Plan the class book page

Help Team Blue turn their notes into a page.

5.
Team Blue's page will have a part called What Lifeguards Carry. Circle the two notes that belong in that part.

a whistlewatch the water the whole timea tall chairkeep swimmers safea red rescue tubehelp anyone in trouble

6.
Finish these sentences for Team Blue's page. Use words from the word bank.
Word bank: whistle · boat · chairs · tube · ladder

Lifeguards sit in tall   so they can see the whole pool.
A swimmer in trouble can hold on to a rescue   and float.
The poster shows a lifeguard with a   and a rescue tube.

7.
Use two sources: Write one sentence for Team Blue's page. Use a fact from one source and a fact from a different source.
8.
Find a new source: How could Kenji find out how people learn to be lifeguards? Name one source he could use and tell why it would help.

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