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THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
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This THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

 

Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, THE STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL by Deborah Freedman, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

 

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

 

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTERS

☐ ANALYZING SETTING

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

☐ ASK AND ANSWER QUESTIONS

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ BOLD PRINT

☐ ELLIPSES

☐ PUNCTUATION

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ FRIENDSHIP

☐ COMPROMISE

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Fish and Snail live amongst the pages of a book in the deep blue ocean. Each day, Snail waits for Fish to come home with a new story.

One day, Fish wants to show Snail a new story, with pirates and special treasure. Snail wants to stay in his current story, where he can play kittens and be safe.

When Fish swims away to the next book, Snail quickly misses him. He falls to the next book, bravely looking for his friend. When Fish sees him, he learns to compromise and join his friend in a pirate boat as kittens.

 

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

  • narrative
  • persuasive / opinion
  • descriptive
  • expository / informative
  • creative / story writing
  • procedure / how-to
  • list making
  • letter / postcard writing
  • poem
  • book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables