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Hooked on Notes: Gathering and Sorting Facts About Crochet

Follow a student who gathers crochet facts from her own experience, a book, a website and a video, then sorts her notes and lists her sources.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students tell whether information came from experience, a print source or a digital source.
Students sort notes under headings and leave out notes that do not fit.
Students write a complete source list entry with a title and an author.

How to use

Read the passage together and point out each place Amara found information, then have students answer the questions and take notes about a hobby of their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.4.8

Recall relevant information from experience or gather it from print and digital sources, take notes, categorize information, and list sources.

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Hooked on Notes: Gathering and Sorting Facts About Crochet

Use experience and sources, take notes, sort them and list your sources.

Read the passage

Read how Amara gathered and organized information for her page.

Amara's Crochet Page

1Mr. Bell's class was making a Hobby Guide for the school library, and each student would write one page about a favorite hobby. Amara picked crochet. She had gone to a crochet club at the community center every Saturday since summer, so she already knew a lot. Before she opened a single book, she wrote down what she remembered from the club.

2From her own experience, Amara wrote four notes. Crochet uses one hook, not two needles. The first stitch the club learned was the chain stitch. Thick yarn makes a project grow faster than thin yarn. Mrs. Reyes, the club leader, says to keep the loops loose so the hook can slide through them.

3Next, Amara looked for facts she did not know. In a library book called Hooked on Yarn by Teresa Lund, she read that yarn can be made from animal fibers, such as wool from sheep, or from plant fibers, such as cotton. Amara did not copy the sentences. Instead, she wrote a short note in her own words: "yarn = wool (sheep) or cotton (plants)."

4Then she visited a crafts website called Stitch Corner. It listed the tools a beginner needs: a hook, yarn, scissors and a large needle for weaving in loose ends. It also said that hooks come in many sizes, and bigger hooks make bigger stitches. Last, Amara watched an online video called "Your First Granny Square." It showed how small crocheted squares can be sewn together to make a blanket.

5Now Amara had a messy pile of notes. To organize them, she wrote three headings: Tools, Stitches and Projects. She moved each note under the heading where it fit best. One note said, "Mrs. Reyes brings oatmeal cookies." It did not fit under any heading, so she crossed it out.

6Finally, Amara made a list of her sources at the bottom of her page so that readers could find them too. She wrote the title and author of the book, the name of the website and the title of the video. She also listed "Saturday crochet club" to show that some of her facts came from her own experience.

Notes and sources

Answer each question. Use the passage to help you.

What did Amara do first to gather information?

A. She searched a crafts website for tools.
B. She borrowed a crochet book from the library.
C. She watched a video about granny squares.
D. She wrote what she remembered from the club.

Where did Amara get each note? Sort the notes.

bigger hooks make bigger stitchesthe club learned the chain stitch firstyarn = wool (sheep) or cotton (plants)small squares can be sewn into a blanketkeep the loops loose so the hook slides throughcrochet uses one hook, not two needles

Her own experience	A print source (book)	A digital source (website or video)

Circle the three notes that Amara would put under the heading Tools.

the chain stitch comes firsta large needle for weaving in loose endssquares sewn together make a blanketscissors for cutting yarnkeep the loops loosehooks come in many sizes

In paragraph 3, why did Amara write "yarn = wool (sheep) or cotton (plants)" instead of copying the book?

A. to take a short note in her own words
B. to make her page in the guide look longer
C. because the book had no facts about yarn
D. because Mr. Bell asked for a drawing

Why did Amara cross out the note about oatmeal cookies?

A. It came from a website she did not trust.
B. It did not fit under any of her headings.
C. Mrs. Reyes asked her not to share it.
D. She had already put it under Projects.

Which entry for Amara's source list gives readers the most help finding the book?

A. Hooked on Yarn, a book from the library
B. a library book about crochet and yarn
C. a book by Teresa about kinds of yarn
D. Hooked on Yarn by Teresa Lund

Finish Amara's source list. Write the missing names from the passage.

Website:
Video:

Take your own notes

Think of a hobby you know well, such as drawing, music, dance or a craft.

From my experience: Name your hobby. Write two short notes about it from your own experience, in your own words.

More sources and headings: Name one print source and one digital source you could use to learn more. Then write two headings you could sort your notes under.