Think of an Eel Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Thinking of an Eel by Karen Wallace.

With 17 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 investigate elements of narrative nonfiction texts, sequence story events, compare & contrast, make predictions & connections, infer, 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.

• Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.

• Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.

• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and explain why it's important to the plot.

• Setting Influences the Plot: Students will draw a scene from the story that takes place in one of the settings and write about what happened there and why it was important to the plot.

• Narrative & Nonfiction Details: Students will read the text from the story and label the details as either narrative or nonfiction.

• The Life of an Eel: Students will identify the stage of the eel's life, draw a picture, and include details from the story that describe each stage of the eel's life.

• Author's Message: Students will describe four important events from the story in chronological order in the boxes on the timeline below. Then answer the questions about the author's message.

• Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• Before & After: Students will draw before and after pictures of the eel and explain their illustrations.

• Life Cycle: Students will illustrate each stage of the life cycle of the eel.

• Wait... There's More!: Students write and illustrate two more pages to add to the end of the book.

• Text-to-Text Connections: Students will compare the books, Think of an Eel and Salmon Stream.

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

• Narrative Details Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues and the word bank to find the hidden words in the word search puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

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💡Need ideas for different ways you can implement these activities?

• Focus on different reading skills each day for targeted instruction, and have students complete a corresponding printable to check for understanding.

• During centers, students can independently read the story again and complete an activity that reviews a previously taught concept.

• Work with students on a reading concept they struggle with during guided reading or strategy groups.

• Students work with a partner or in literature circles to complete additional reading activities.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.