Turtle Craft: Letter T Creative Writing Prompt and Animal Research Activity

Turtles make letter T week slow and steady in the best way. Your students build Tristan the Turtle, research with a fact sheet, then write about what they would do with a turtle.

This turtle craft gives your students a cheery letter T animal to build, plus writing prompts that turn it into a real writing project. Students make Tristan the Turtle, research with the animal fact sheet, then write about what they would do if they were or owned a turtle. It is a stand alone piece of my A-Z animal writing unit, so you can start with just 1 animal.

What is in it

• Turtle craft
• Zoo keeper application
• Guess my animal writing
• If I were a turtle writing, on primary and secondary lines
• If I owned a turtle writing, on primary and secondary lines
• Nonfiction animal fact sheet for research

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Skills it builds

• Creative and opinion writing
• Research with nonfiction facts
• Cutting, gluing, and following directions

Where it fits

• Letter T week
• Animal, pond, and ocean units, or before a zoo field trip
• Writing centers and hallway bulletin boards
• Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade

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Ready to build a turtle?

Start with just this 1 animal, or add it to your A to Z animal writing unit.

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Jessica Ann Stanford, Teachers Follow Teachers