Bonus Read Aloud Pick - Don't Trust Fish
- hvgreenspan
- Nov 14
- 1 min read
Don't Trust Fish written by Neil Sharpson and illustrated by Dan Santat
Read it to yourself. Read it to your kids. Your nieces and nephews. Your neighbors. Your eighty-year-old uncle. The lady on the bus. Whoever.
Then bring it to school and read it to your students. Why? Because you need to have MORE FUN in your classroom! I recently listened to a podcast by Mel Robbins about how important FUN is. I'm now on a mission to have more fun in every aspect of my life (boy oh boy, did I dive headfirst into Halloween this year! I regret nothing.)
Here's the other reason you get to bring this book in as a read aloud. It's kind of science-related. Scienci-ish. Science-esque. Just sciency enough. It's all about CLASSIFICATION - and how fish are so hard to classify! If you teach about animals and/or classification at any point in the school year, DO THIS BOOK!
It's also about point of view! (Hear that, ELA supervisor? Now we're teaching POV with this book, too!). Can your students figure out whose point of view the book is told from as you're reading it?
Then, because you are a FUN TEACHER, do this Mini-Book activity (linked below) in small groups or partners. Kids will decide on which animal to write about, and whose point of view it will come from (will it be a terrified worm writing about birds? a mouse writing about owls?). The activity includes a planning sheet for students to use, and a template to create their mini-book.
Get creative. Get weird. Have FUN!