Mr. Popper's Penguins Text Evidence

This Storyboard That activity is part of the lesson plans for Mr. Popper's Penguins

Activity Overview

In this activity, students will be provided a question or prompt to answer using textual evidence. The prompt here is, “How do animals help humans? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.”

The three examples provided include:

Animals provide company for people; Mr. Popper realizes he is much happier with his pet penguins.
Animals bring out the best in people; Mrs. Popper didn’t care for having the pets, but found herself enjoying them.
Animals are very interesting; Mr. Popper reads about how one penguin gets pushed over the edge to check for danger.

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Student Instructions

Create a storyboard that answers the prompt using at least three examples from Mr. Popper's Penguins. Click on "Add / Delete Cells" to change the number of examples.

Type the question into the central black box.
Type a response to the question in your own words in the title box.
Think about examples from the text that support your answer.
Type text evidence in the description boxes. Paraphrase or quote directly from the text.
Illustrate each example using scenes, characters, items, etc.

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Mr. Popper's Penguins Text Evidence

This Storyboard That activity is part of the lesson plans for Mr. Popper's Penguins

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