Dolphins by Seymour Simon Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Dolphins by Seymour Simon.

With 28 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will apply listening and note-taking skills, investigate different types of dolphins, compare & contrast, make inferences and connections, learn and apply new vocabulary, determine text structure, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

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• Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.

• Who Am I?: Students will match the words in the word bank to the descriptions and draw and color a picture of each dolphin (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Word Scramble: Students use the details from the book to unscramble the words (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Fact or Fiction: Students determine whether the details are facts from the story or made-up (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers ONLY): Students read the details and determine if they are true or false (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers and correct the false details): Students determine if the details are true or false and rewrite the false statements to make them true (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Dolphin Playing Cards: Students create playing cards that include one or two facts they learned about each dolphin and include a colored illustration.

• Dolphin Diagram: Students will label the parts of a dolphin using the words in the word bank and describe the function of each part (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the puzzle. Words can go across or down. Letters are shared when the words intersect (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Book Review: Students will rate and review the book.

• Dolphin Roll & Research: Students roll a die to see which dolphin they will research to learn more about. Then, they conduct research using teacher-approved websites and informational texts to look for information to answer the provided questions.

• Acrostic Poem: Students create an acrostic poem to describe dolphins.

• Compare & Contrast: Students compare and contrast dolphins and porpoises.

• Text Structure: Students take note of how the author organized and presented the information about dolphins on the selected pages given. Then, they determine the main idea, supporting details, and text structure the author used to organize the information.

• Problem & Solution: Students review the details on pages 29 and 30 to help them fill in the solutions to each problem in the graphic organizer.

• All About Dolphins Flipbook: While reading the story, students will take notes in their flipbooks. This activity includes 5 pages (ANSWER KEY included).

• Long Research Project on Dolphins: Students conduct research to learn more about dolphins and complete graphic organizers, which include answering questions, drawing and labeling an illustration, recording fun facts, defining and illustrating new vocabulary, and completing a summary report.

• One-Page Research Project on Dolphins: Students conduct research to learn more about dolphins and complete a one-page report with facts regarding the habitat, features, diet, movement, and interesting facts.