Book Summary
This book teaches students about the animals that live in the pools of water on rocky shores called tide pools. The engaging puzzle format encourages readers to use clues to guess the tide pool animal described. Repetitive phrases and high-frequency words support early readers. 

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions to understand text
• Identify main idea and details
• Discriminate initial consonant digraph /sh/
• Identify initial consonant digraph sh
• Recognize and identify different types of sentences
• List words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- Shapes in Tide Pools (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, consonant digraph sh, sentence type worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: are, can, has, its, like, many, there, they, this
• Content words: animal, claws, crab, mussel, oval, pools, rocky, shaped, shores, snail, starfish, tide, triangle