Surprising Sharks

Author: Nicola Davies

Illustrator: James Croft

Genre: Non-Fiction

Davies, Nicola, and James Croft. Surprising Sharks. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2015. Print.

Annotation
An informative and humorous book teaching the reader about all of the sharks in the ocean.

ELA Content Standards

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas- Grade 2
7.) Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

How it Connects: Students can discuss the different types of sharks they learned about in the story, and talk about the setting. Students can also talk about the words that are bolded and why the authors purpose.

Key Ideas and Details- Grade 1

1.) Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

How it Connects: Students can ask questions they have about sharks and ocean life. If one student asks a question, and another student knows the answer, students can work together to ask/answer questions together.

Tier 3 Vocabulary

dorsal, fin, tool, multiple

Classroom Usage
Centers: Students can split up into four groups (more or less depending on the class size). Each group will be assigned a shark from the book. The groups will have to draw and picture of the shark they were assigned, and write facts they learned about that shark on an anchor chart.

Differentiation
This story would be good for ELL because it has a lot of complex vocabulary that does not always come up in everyday discussions. This book is great to work on comprehension.