Do your students need help sharing & being a good friend? This friendship book companion resource for the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister can help! Teach kids to make friends, be a good friend, and share in your kindergarten, first grade and second grade classroom with this engaging read aloud lesson and social-emotional learning activities.
⭐The Rainbow Fish book companion lesson is about sharing and how this can help them make friends. Children will understand the importance of sharing and giving to others in order to make and keep friends. To learn what friends are, what they do, and what they say.
⭐Perfect for your read-aloud time, SEL block, morning meeting, whole-class discussions, counselor lessons, sub-plans, and more!
⭐Children will participate in a classroom discussion and book chat, share their ideas in writing, and engage in fun activities that build friendships.
❤️The Rainbow Fish book companion includes:
- a detailed lesson plan that makes teaching simple!
- guided questions for your classroom discussion
- anchor chart idea to organize your lesson
- writing activity to encourage reflection and kids to respond to a prompt
- 4 FUN follow-up activities (printable & digital included)
- Digital anchor chart, writing template, and a few digital activities. These are ready in Google Slides for use in Google Classroom.
- Interactive PowerPoint file of the digital templates for use in your preferred platform
4 Activities in The Rainbow Fish book companion:
- "I Can Share" fish craft activity
- Share or Keep sorting activity
- Rainbow Fish directed drawing and writing prompts
- "My Special Thing" scale craft activity
✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides: the book, lesson, story activities, and digital activities.
Why you'll love this book companion!
- This children’s book is carefully chosen to teach an essential SEL topic.
- Covers a week of SEL instruction with a book lesson and engaging follow-up activities.
- Facilitates meaningful discussions and builds social-emotional skills while growing classroom community.
- Supports English Language Arts standards and develops literacy skills.
- Includes engaging printable and digital activities kids will enjoy.
- Perfect for whole-group lessons, homeschool, and one-to-one classrooms.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shannon R. says, "I just recently discovered Proud to be Primary's TPT shop. I used this Rainbow Fish product as a way to review being kind and being a good friend with my students! I really enjoy the Rainbow Fish and I love that I now have a SEL product to go along with them!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carrie L. says, "My students enjoyed this activity. We were able to build in a lot of oral language into this activity."
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