The stories and illustrations could be separated and used for a matching activity. Clothes Line Story - Divide students into small groups and assign a different scene from the story for them to recreate. Use white drawing paper, construction paper and crayons. When students are finished have them pin their story parts, in order to the clothes line. On index cards write the names of different ocean animals.
Students draw a card and research the animal on it.
When finished, they can swap with a partner to guess what animal the description is for. Poems - Read aloud some poems about the ocean. Then work on innovation. Make a Word Bank on the chalkboard, chart paper, or over-head. Then replace the words in the original poem with words from the Word Bank.