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Pangolin Notes: From Article to Note Cards

Students read a short online article about pangolins, take brief notes and sort the notes into categories for a report.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.3.8

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students take brief notes on key facts from an informational source.
Students sort notes into given categories for a report.
Students recall information from their own experience and sort it into categories.

How to use

Read the article together, then model turning one sentence into a short note before students work on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.3.8

Recall information from experience or gather it from print and digital sources, take brief notes, and sort evidence into given categories.

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Pangolin Notes: From Article to Note Cards

Read an article, take brief notes and sort them into groups.

Read the article

Amina is writing a report about pangolins. She found this article on a library website. Read it.

Meet the Pangolin

1Pangolins are small mammals that live in parts of Africa and Asia. From far away, a pangolin might look like a walking pinecone. Its body is covered in hard, brown scales that overlap like shingles on a roof. The scales are made of keratin, the same material as your fingernails.

2Pangolins eat ants and termites. They do not have any teeth. Instead, a pangolin uses its strong front claws to dig into ant hills and termite mounds. Then it catches the insects with its long, sticky tongue.

3Pangolins have a clever way to stay safe. When a pangolin feels scared, it rolls up into a tight ball. Its soft belly is tucked inside, and its hard scales face out. Many hungry animals cannot open the ball, so they give up and walk away.

4Most pangolins are busy at night. During the day, many of them rest in burrows or hollow trees. A baby pangolin often rides on its mother's tail when she goes out to look for food.

Take brief notes

A note is a few key words, not a whole sentence. Use the article to answer.

Amina reads this sentence: "Instead, a pangolin uses its strong front claws to dig into ant hills and termite mounds." Which is the best brief note for it?

A. Instead, a pangolin uses its strong front claws to dig into ant hills and termite mounds.
B. digs up roots with its sticky tongue
C. digs into ant hills with front claws
D. front claws are made of soft keratin

Finish Amina's note card about food. Use paragraph 2 and the word bank. Two words are extra.

Word bank: scales · tongue · burrows · termites · teeth

eats ants and
has no
catches insects with long, sticky

Read paragraph 3 again. Underline the sentence that tells what a pangolin does when it feels scared.

Pangolins have a clever way to stay safe.When a pangolin feels scared, it rolls up into a tight ball.Its soft belly is tucked inside, and its hard scales face out.Many hungry animals cannot open the ball, so they give up and walk away.

Amina wrote four notes. Which note did NOT come from the article?

A. scales made of keratin
B. swims across rivers for food
C. rests in burrows or trees
D. baby rides on mother's tail

Sort the notes

Amina's report will have a part for each category. Help her group her notes.

Sort Amina's notes into the categories.

rolls into a tight ballcovered in hard, brown scaleseats ants and termitescatches insects with its tonguemight look like a walking pineconehungry animals give up and walk awaydigs with strong front claws

What it looks like	How it gets food	How it stays safe

Amina put these three notes on one card: "busy at night," "rests in burrows" and "baby rides on mother's tail." Which heading fits this card best?

A. How it gets food
B. What it looks like
C. How it stays safe
D. Daily life and babies

Amina forgot what pangolin scales are made of. Which paragraph should she read again?

A. paragraph 1
B. paragraph 2
C. paragraph 3
D. paragraph 4

Which question can Amina NOT answer with this article? She will need to look in another source.

A. What do pangolins eat?
B. Where do pangolins rest in the day?
C. What do pangolins do when scared?
D. How long do pangolins live?

Think of an animal you have seen in real life, at home, in a park or on a walk. Write two brief notes about it. After each note, write which category it belongs in: What it looks like, How it gets food, or How it stays safe.