Fish Is Fish Language and Articulation Activities General

Fish Is Fish Language and Articulation Activities

General Directions • Watch the link to the story on the following slide. • If you do not have access to You. Tube, the last slide has alternate language activities. • Ask your child the Comprehension Questions. You are not limited to these questions, nor do you have to ask all of them. • These questions are also good if your child is only working on articulation. They can practice their sounds while answering. • Answers are provided in parentheses. The student does not have to answer exactly.

General Directions cont’d • For students with articulation goals, there is a slide(s) that contains lists of words for targeting sounds. • The slide titled Additional/Alternative Directions can be used for all students. • Above all, have fun with the book! • If you have any questions, please email me: tjeffords@gcbe. org

Link to Book https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Z 6 Tx. Bfj aumw

Comprehension Questions • Who were the characters in this story? (Fish and Frog) • What is the setting? Where did it take place? (the pond) • Who changed as he grew up? (tadpole) • What did the tadpole change into? (frog) • Where did the frog go? (out of the pond, into the world) • What did the frog see? (birds, cows, people) • How did the fish picture the creatures the frog saw? • What did the fish want to do? (see the creatures)

Comprehension Questions cont’d • What did the fish do? (jumped out of the water) • What happened when the fish jumped out of the water? (couldn’t breathe) • Who saved fish and how? (Frog came and pushed him back into the water) • Talk about how fish feels when he is left in the pond, when frog comes back and when frog pushed him back in the water. • Retell the story-with the book, the sequencing cards, the sentences or by memory.

Articulation Practice /r/, /s/ Beginning /r/ Real Return Right Rays Middle /r/ During Marvelous warm Final /r/ Discover Where Here There Color /r/ blends Friends Front Frog Grew Grassy Dreaming Groaned Beginning /s/ Said Seen See sun Middle /s/ Nonsense Dressed grassy Final /s/ Birds Wings Cows Grass marvelous /s/ blends Smaller Splash Sleep Stunned

Articulation Practice /k/, /g/ Beginning /k/ Could Come Cows Carry Middle /k/ Become Luckily Final /k/ Like Pink Whack Bank Milk Shook dark Beginning /g/ Gone Gills Middle /g/ Argued Wings Bags Final /g/ Leg Frog

Articulation Practice /l/, “th”, /f/, /w/, “sh” Beginning /l/ Last Look Legs Little Like Letting Lights Land Luckily /l/ blends Climbed Fly Sleep Flight floated Middle /l/ Only Color Finally Followed Smaller Help “th” words There Things They That Feather Breathed Final /l/ Tadpole Real People wonderful /f/ words Fine Fish Four Footed Feather Feeble Felt Before Beautiful /w/ words Woods Water Weeds One We Where World Wings Wonderful Whack Warm Watching “sh” Shook Pushed Fish Splash

Additional/Alternative Language Activities • Sentence Mix and Fix-cut the words apart and have your child put them back together to make a sentence-recommended for 2 nd grade and up. The sentences can also be arranged in sequential order as they came straight from the book. • Compare/Contrast a fish and a frog. Use the diagram or make your own. • Encourage your child to choose 3 -5 words from the articulation list to make sentences. • Verb/sentence Practice- Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank and have your child practice saying the sentence. (K and 1 st grade)

Sequence/Retell The minnow and tadpole are friends in the pond. Tadpole becomes a frog and leaves the pond. Fish grows up and wonders what happened to his friend. Frog comes back and tells of the marvelous things he has seen. Fish wants to see them, so he jumps out of the water and he cannot breathe. Frog pushes him back in the water and he realizes his home is the best.

Sentence Mix and Fix The frog and the minnow were inseparable friends. The tadpole discovered he had grown two legs. The frog climbed out of the water and onto the grassy bank. The fish often wondered where his friend had gone.

Sentence Mix and Fix With a happy splash, the frog I have seen The fish jumped out of the water The frog pushed him back extraordinary jumped in the water. and onto the grassy bank. into the pond. things.

Compare/Contrast Frog Fish

Verb/Sentence Practice The fish ____ swimming. The frog ______ the fish into the water. have push is pushed The frog ____ four legs. The plants ___ in the water. grew are growed The fish ____ out of the water. jumped is The kid ____ eating a lollipop. are is