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Lexiconic Resources: 5 W's and How Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This downloadable graphic organizer will assist students in taking notes about a news story. Students will use this resource to identify answers to the following five W's and H questions: What happened? Who was there? When did it happen?...
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Thoughtful Learning: Minilesson: Asking and Answering the 5 W's and H Questions

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will learn the "5 W's and H questions" needed to comprehend a news story. Then students will apply these question words [who, what, where, why, when, and how] to real news stories and to events in their own lives.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Five W's

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that helps students identify the 5 W's-- Who- What-When-Where-Why-- and How. This is helpful in summarizing reading selections, historical events and creating news...
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Can Teach

Can Teach: How to Write a 5 W Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site describes how a 5W poem is a good way to teach children to identify and focus on the five W's of a story or an event. Lesson plan indicated for 1st grade and above.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Story Grammar Training

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This intervention emphasizes the importance of metacognitive or active reading strategies to improve comprehension. It directs students' attention on story structure by teaching them to ask five "wh" questions about the settings and...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to websites, an image, and a video about using questioning skills to research and write about one's family history.
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Live Worksheets: Question Words

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This interactive worksheet features interrogative sentences with missing question words. Students will type in one of following words or phrases into each sentence: who, what, where, why, when, how, and more. Students will then submit...
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Dorling Kindersley: Question Words [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st Standards
This worksheet helps learners understand the words we use to ask questions. [PDF]