How to Catch a Fish – Fact Finders Follow Up Activities

Description

This pack is for Years 4 to 6 students reading the MoE Fact Finders decodable text: How to Catch a Fish. The focus is adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and short vowels.

What’s included:

Two-page activity sheet:

• Word Reading: ten focus words from the book, with a Quick Draw.
• Comprehension Questions: the four question types recommended in the Fact Finders Teacher Support Materials, for oral or written answers.
• Comprehension Activity: a cloze using focus words.
• Vocabulary: the word “casting” broken down by sounds, syllables, spelling and meaning.
• Literacy Skills: a sentence-building task using words from the text.
• Fun Fact: gurnard can taste with their “legs”!
• Creative Task: draw your dream fishing spot.
• Apply Your Knowledge: QR code links to a screened video and a related Ministry of Education story.

Full lesson plan: phonics focus words, key vocabulary and guided reading questions for every double page.

Two phonological awareness slide decks (PowerPoint or Google Slides)

• Adjacent Consonants: take away, change and count sounds, plus rhyming words, using words from the book.
• Consonant Digraphs: ch, sh, th, -ck and -ng through syllables, rhyme, beginning and ending sounds, and I Spy.

Answer key

A note on the design:
I made these sheets look like our Year 3+ reading resources, so older students reading at a lower level don’t get something that looks junior. Each page has a name space and a photo of the book cover so they can get started on their own. I’ve kept the tasks short – most take about 10 minutes. The video and audio links let everyone explore the topic, whatever their reading level.

Great for: guided reading follow-up, reading rotations, buddy reading, literacy contracts and relief teaching.