Monday, November 16, 2009

"Fish School" by Nancy Poydar


This is a cute fictional picture book that has lots of factual information about fish, mammals and ocean life. Charlie goes on a field trip with his classmates to Check Spellingthe aquarium and brings along his own gold fish. A problem arises when Charlie misplaces "wishy" his gold fish. The classmates, Ms. Finn and Charlie work together to find wishy and eventually they find him under a seat in an auditorium. I think this a fun book and can be used in a science lesson or students could just read it for enjoyment. The book doesn't give that much information about fish but it does decipher the difference between freshwater fish, ocean water fish, and other sea creatures like dolphins which are mammals. I really liked how the author and illustrator represented the students with all different skin colors and I really liked how the author highlighted some of the words. Repetition and highlighting familiar words can help students learn new words and build on their vocabulary.

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