Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 8 | Animals of the Saltwater Habitat 157

Note: Introducing the Read-Aloud and Extensions may have

activity options that exceed the time allocated for that part of

the lesson. To remain within the time periods allocated for each

portion of the lesson, you will need to make conscious choices

about which activities to include based on the needs of your

students.

Exercise Materials Details

Introducing the Read-Aloud

What Have We Already
Learned?

Where Are We? Image Card 23 (Coral Reef), yarn,
world map

You may wish to connect Image Card

23 to a saltwater habitat on a world map

(e.g., the Pacific Ocean).

Vocabulary Preview: Coral Reef Image 8A-6

Purpose for Listening

Presenting the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Animals of the Saltwater
Habitat

world map or globe You may wish to pause after Image 8A-7

and review the different features of an

ocean before continuing on to Image

8A-8 and telling about the animals found

in an ocean.

You may wish to conclude the read-aloud

with a short video clip of a saltwater

(ocean) habitat.

Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Comprehension Questions

Word Work: Shallow

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day
Extensions (20 minutes)

Habitat Journal: The Saltwater
Habitat

Instructional Master 8B-1, drawing

tools

Habitat Review Image Cards 16–26; Habitat
Posters 5–7; Rattenborough cutout

Invite students to put their Rattenborough

cutout on the correct Habitat Poster.

Domain-Related Trade Book trade book about a freshwater or
saltwater habitat; drawing paper,
drawing tools