Book Summary
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to float weightless through the ocean? Or what it might be like to have no bones in your body? You will know after you read You're a Jellyfish! Through easy-to-understand text and detailed photographs, you might even feel as though you really are a jellyfish!

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand text
• Analyze point of view in text
• Identify the vowel diphthong ou
• Recognize and use commas in a series
• Identify and understand syllable patterns

Materials

• Book -- You're a Jellyfish! (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Content vocabulary, summarize, commas in a series, syllable patterns worksheets
• Discussion cards

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

Vocabulary

• Content words: bask, budding, cloned, frilly, invertebrates, marine, medusas, planula, polyp, social, tentacles