Sea Horse Shyest Fish in the Sea by Chris Butterworth Lesson Plan and Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the informational mentor text picture book Sea Horse The Shyest Fish in the Sea by Chris Butterworth and John Lawrence. Great as part of an nonfiction unit, ocean or sea creatures study!

Lessons and activities focus on:

• sequencing
• close reading for inferring meaning of unknown vocabulary words
• text evidence to determine the main idea and details

The lesson plans include:

• teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
• printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
• 4-5 day plan
• Discussion questions
• Suggested discussion strategies
• Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
• Anchor chart examples
• Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
• Great for bilingual classrooms
• Printable worksheets for written responses in a reading log

How to Use This Resource:

• whole group
• small group
• as a reading  intervention
• special education (SPED)
• bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
• with ELLs for ESL instruction
• Great for K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade

Your Kindergarten, first, second, or third grade students will love this story!

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