Ocean+Animals

**//By: Robert Hirschi//**
 * //Ocean Animals//**


 * __Grade Level__**: 1st Grade
 * __Time Required__**: 40 Minutes

Hirschi, Robert. __Ocean Discover My World__. New York: A Bantam Little Rooster Book, 1911. Water color Paints Paint Brushes Glitter Glue Painting Canvas/Paper Ocean Animals Worksheet Note cards with Vocabulary
 * __Materials__**

//Optional:// Fish/Ocean Stickers

**L.RP.01.03 **Respond to multiple text types listened to or viewed by discussing, illustrating, and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and make connections.
 * __Michigan Literacy Objectives  __**
 * R.CM.01.02 **Connect personal knowledge and experience to ideas in texts.


 * __Lesson Specific Objectives__**
 * 1) Students will be able connect what they already know to the worksheet before reading the story.
 * 2) The students will have a basic knowledge of the12 ocean animals in the book and be able to match them correctly on the worksheet after reading.


 * __Anticipatory Set__**
 * 1) Begin by asking the students about what the already know about the ocean and the animals that live in and around it.
 * 2) Take the note cards with the 5 vocabulary words out (Slithering, Predator, Menacing, Mussels, Mysterious). Ask the students if they know what these mean and make sure if they don’t they get what it means before we read the story. Also tell the students to see if they can notice the words when we are reading.
 * __Before Reading__**
 * 1) Hand out an //Ocean Animals// worksheet and see if the students can match the animal to the description. Since this is done before you read this is their best guess. If they don’t know the answer they can give a best guess or just leave it blank and put an answer in after reading the story.
 * 2) See what sort of answers the students gave.
 * __During Reading__**
 * 1) There are questions on every page of the book about the animals, just make sure to give students a chance to answer the questions or talk about the animals the questions are about.
 * 2) Try to have the students tell you what animals are on the pages and what they know about them, you only need to do this on every couple pages because there is more than one animal on each page.
 * 3) Make sure the read the facts about the 12 animals at the end of the book so they students can use this to answer the worksheet correctly.
 * __After Reading__**
 * 1) Give the students a few minutes to go back to their worksheet and fill out the answers they didn’t know or change the ones they did
 * 2) Spend a few minutes going over the worksheet to make sure the students got all the answers.
 * 3) Ask the students what was something new that they learned? What their favorite animal was and why?
 * __Closure__**
 * 1) As a final activity, the students will use water paints and paint an ocean scene on the paint canvas with at least one of the animals from the book.


 * __Assessment__**
 * 1) The students will complete the worksheet as an assessment to see if they were paying attention to the book.