At+a+Touch+Tank

Day 1

 * 1) __Predicting__: Look at title / cover. What is a touch tank? Have you been to one? What is there in a touch tank? What do you predict we will learn? Chart first predictions in one column.
 * 2) Look at each page. List what animals the book will be about. List second predictions in second column.
 * 3) For each animal, have students jot down what they know about the animal. Add to third column of predictions.
 * As you make predictions, be meta-cognitive about how students are making predictions. Through __connections__ they have? __Inferring__? What part of the book are they using? Do some think-alouds of your own predictions as well.
 * 1) Read pages 3-5 about sea stars. (On page 3 introduce Alaska and find out what they know about Alaska).
 * 2) Confirm / throw out predictions about sea stars.

Day 2

 * 1) __Questioning__: What do you wonder? What would you like to learn from this book? Record alongside predictions, putting questions about specific animals next to those animals.
 * 2) What did you learn already from the book? Review Sea stars.
 * 3) For each animal, review what they know and what they predict, and any questions that apply. Read the pages together, working on unknown words and concepts. Have students __infer__ word meanings from context as much as possible.
 * 4) Write unknown words on index cards and have students illustrate them. Review them often so they can remember what they are and how to say / read them.

Day 3

 * 1) Review what they have learned. Have students re-read the book alone to see what else they can learn the second time through, and to confirm or reject predictions.
 * 2) Venn diagram of sea urchin / sea cucumber?
 * 3) Re-read to prepare to read to a partner of their choice in the class. Teach scooping with popsicle sticks

Day 4

 * 1) As they read to a partner, they should share one thing they wondered and one thing they learned.