Read Aloud and Social Emotional Learning are two of the most important times of the day in elementary classrooms. Struggling to find the time to fit it all it? Using higher-level thinking questions, teacher modeling, and opportunities for students to turn and talk to discuss the text, this Shark Lady Interactive Read Aloud Lesson not only makes it simple to increase student engagement and comprehension but it will also help to facilitate powerful conversations about important SEL topics.

⭐⭐⭐ Shark Lady Interactive Read Aloud Lesson is one of 40 lessons included in the Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for Social-Emotional Learning Bundle. If you purchased the interactive read-aloud lesson for each title included in this bundle, it would cost $120! Buying the bundle means that you are getting 20 lessons for FREE! (Plus, as an added bonus this bundle includes an additional 14 interactive read-aloud lessons that are not available for purchase separately.)

✅✅✅ Please check out the PREVIEW above for a closer look at the lesson format and what's included.

⚠️⚠️⚠️Note: This resource is a companion to the mentor text Shark Lady by Jess Keating, and access to the text is needed.

Included in this Resource:

• Concise one-page lesson that is easy to print and use (simple enough to leave for a sub, too!)

• Text preview to grab your students’ attention, provide needed background knowledge, and activate student's prior knowledge to ensure maximum engagement and comprehension with the text.

• At least 10 planned talking points throughout the text that provide opportunities for teacher modeling of reading strategies and prompts to guide purposeful student discussions about the text. Each talking point could be expanded into a complete mini-lesson based on student needs.

• Covers a variety of key reading skills such as Author’s Craft, Characters, Figurative Language, Foreshadowing, Illustrations, Inferences, Making Connections, Predictions, Plot, Problem and Solution, Questioning, Setting, Text Structure, Theme, Word Choice, and More!

• List of text-specific vocabulary that can be pre-taught or used as discussion points during the read aloud to support the students' understanding of the word in context.

• The theme of the picture book is perfect for teaching social and emotional or character education lessons. Perfect for engaging your students in powerful conversations about SEL topics!

• Companion graphic organizer to further support student comprehension of and engagement with the text. These graphic organizers can be printed or assigned digitally.

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Who Should Purchase This Resource?

This resource is perfect for busy teachers who are passionate about sharing engaging books with their students through read alouds and are committed to educating the whole child that are seeking a way an effective way to integrate social-emotional learning in their classroom.

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Looking for more Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for Social-Emotional Learning? Here you go...

Amos and Boris

The Arabic Quilt

Big Al

Big Red Lollipop

A Bike Like Sergio’s

The Box Turtle

Carl and the Meaning of Life

The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County

Crazy Hair Day

The Day the Crayons Quit

A Different Pond

A Day’s Work

Emmanuel’s Dream

The Empty Pot

Farfallina and Marcel

Fearless Mary

The Good Egg

Holes in the Sky

Home at Last

Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores

Jabari Jumps

Luigi and the Barefoot Races

Listen, Buddy

Malala’s Magic Pencil

My Row and Piles of Coins

The Oldest Student

Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Day

Papa’s Mechanical Fish

The Paper Kingdom

The Quilt Maker's Gift

Ready to Fly

Rescue and Jessica

Ricky, the Rock that Couldn’t Roll

Rosie’s Glasses

Rosie Revere, Engineer

Sylvie

Sonya’s Chickens

Shark Lady

Under the Lemon Moon

The Very Last Castle

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