Friday, April 14, 2017

The Rainbow Fish By: Marcus Pfister

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Book Title: The Rainbow Fish
Author: Marcus Pfister
Illustrator: Marcus Pfister
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Summary: A very beautiful fish is too obsessed with his appearance that he misses out on what true happiness is until a wise octopus tells him to give every fish in the sea one of his shinny scales and make the whole ocean beautiful, then he will truly be happy. 
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 2, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #7 - Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text
How it Connects: Students can write how the author is making the point that the fish needs to be generous and not greedy if he wants to have friends and be happy. 
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Key Ideas and Details #3 - Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
How it Connects: Students can discuss how the fish was feeling when the octopus told him he needed to give away the thing he loved most and thought made him happy, but realizing that if the fish gave away the thing the loved most to others, that would make him really truly happy in the end.
3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) Fish, sea 2) rainbow, scale 3) octopus, ordinary
How Children Use Book: Small Groups
Meets Needs: Gifted students can use this book to do research on actual rainbow fish

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