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Suggested Teaching & Learning Activity
Nonfiction Text Features Exploration
- Help students to develop knowledge about the use of such text features found in The Farm on the Sea as titles, illustrations, glossary and table of contents to determine content or to locate topics by modelling during read aloud and shared language, and through mini-lessons. Provide opportunities for students to practise using the above text features. For example, in a guided reading session, students could be supported in using the table of contents to locate information about a certain topic in a text.
- Ask students to look at the cover, table of contents, index, pictures, and maps to formulate questions about what the text is about or where to find things in the book. The students can then answer their questions.
Offline Resources and Activities
Online Activities
Careers At The Farm on the Sea there’s so much to do! Hatchery Workers https://thefarmonthesea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/hatchery-workers.mp3 Salmon Farmers https://thefarmonthesea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/salmon-farmers.mp3 Net Makers https://thefarmonthesea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/netmakers.mp3 Accountants …
Colour by Number Click the link below to print your own colour by number sheet featuring Sunny the Salmon! Download Printable Version
Read-to-me With English Subtitles Download Printable Version Animated Version with English Subtitles
Read-to-me Download Printable Version Animated Version with English Subtitles
Crossword Puzzle Download Printable Version
Explore the Farm on the sea Click or tap the icons to interact with The Farm on the Sea.
Trivia Time Read The Question Carefully Think Of The Best Answer Hover Over The Card To Check Where do you find a …
Word Search Download Printable Version
Learn to Draw a Salmon Download Free E-Book
Salmon Lifecycle Download Printable Version
Suggested Teaching & Learning Activity Map Work Student description of location need only involve the cardinal directions (e.g., N, S, E, and …
Suggested Teaching & Learning Activity The Needs of Salmon In the context for salmon described in The Farm on the Sea, discuss …
Suggested Teaching & Learning Activity Responding Personally to The Farm and the Sea Encourage students to make personal connections to The Farm …
Curriculum Connections
Grade K-1
- English Language Arts (Atlantic Canada)
- Reading and Viewing
- GCO: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form, and genre.
- Recognize some basic components of texts such as author, illustrator, and title.
- GCO: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form, and genre.
- Reading and Viewing
Grade 1-2
- English Language Arts (Atlantic Canada)
- Reading and Viewing
- GCO: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Use some features of written text to determine content, locate topics, and obtain information.
- Use a variety of strategies to create meaning.
- Identify the main idea.
- Predict content using text information along with personal knowledge and experiences.
- Make inferences by drawing on their own experiences and clues in the text.
- GCO: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and Viewing
Grade 3-4
- English Language Arts (Atlantic Canada)
- Reading and Viewing
- GCO: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Use pictorial, typographical, and organizational features of written text to determine content, locate topics, and obtain information.
- GCO: Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form, and genre.
- Identify some different types of print and media texts.
- Recognize some of their language conventions and text characteristics.
- Recognize that these conventions and characteristics help them understand what they read and view.
- Identify some different types of print and media texts.
- GCO: Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and Viewing
