Clark the Shark Lesson Ideas featuring ideas for Reading, writing, math, and center activities too. Download the free editable lesson plan template!
Clark the Shark is a great book to introduce to your students early in the year. Clark is big and rough and he has a hard time with his friends.
Can you think of a really enthusiastic student who might benefit from these gentle reminders?
In the end, Clark learns how to be gentle with his friends.
In our, Engaging Readers units, students spend a week with a book. During this time, the teacher will read Clark the Shark to the class and do the decoding work, while the students are asked to do the comprehension work.
We ask the students to consider these questions:
Knowing the characters helps readers understand what they are reading. You can get to know the characters by thinking about how they look and the things that they do and say.
We also know that primary students need a lot of practice retelling the story and including text details. So each week we practice telling the story. This is done as a whole group activity with students discussing the text details and events in Clark the Shark with their partners. Then students work on their own retelling.
We also know that students can practice sophisticated skills like inferring. Here is the prompt we used for that skill.
You can not do justice to a close read without the book. However, there are advantages for students do hear a different example of reading fluency. That’s when we love to include a video version of the book. We encourage teachers to limit the video use to just once a week.
Students complete the Clark the Shark craft then added our sentence study. In sentence study, we look for various print concepts. We also do a little grammar work. The directions for this craft are also included in our Engaging Readers Comprehension units. Click here to find this craft and all of the reading comprehension activities to go with Clark the Shark:
Here are a few other center ideas.
This is an older picture and the unit has been updated, but you can get an idea of what the writing center looks like.
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Students love getting up and moving about the room. Here are a few photos from the October Write the Room set.
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This pocket chart sentence center was a staple in my room. Students work on building sentences then writing them.
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Hi Dee Dee, where do you sell the work for Clark the Shark? I see it in you weekly plans, but don’t see what bundle it belongs to. Thank you!
Yes, the lessons are hyperlinked in the blog post and in the lesson plans. You just need to click on the links. You can find them in the Engaging Readers Aug/Sept units (Set 2). They are in Deanna Jump’s store. Here is the link again.
Thank you!
You are welcome!
Hi Deedee! Do you bundle your Weekly Curriculums? I see Week 3 and Week 28 and some other random weeks, but if I wanted to download ALL the weeks, do you have a bundle for that? Or do I need to search harder on your TPT site for all the weeks?
I’m sorry I don’t but if you click on this link, you will be able to see what I have available: