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