This teacher's guide offers suggestions for discussion questions and activities that can be used with a group or with individual children. Discussion Questions are designed to help children develop their comprehension, critical thinking, language arts, and verbal skills. The questions focus on ideas in the book, encouraging children to express their own opinions, to interpret what they have read, and to experience their own special moments of discovery and understanding. Suggested Activities offer children opportunities to further explore and examine the ideas encountered in the book. Discussion questions and activities in this guide are grouped by curriculum area, and may be adapted for students from kindergarten through third grades.
Some activities require the use of library resources, art materials, and music.
Individual teachers can best determine which of the suggestions are best suited to the grade level, interests, and abilities of their students. If you have suggestions for improving this guide or would like to tell us about ways you have used The Rainbow Fish or any of our other books in your classroom we would like to hear from you. Please send e-mail to Teacher's Comments . Ask students to draw as many fish as the number written on their paper. Call out a number and ask the children who have drawn that many fish to stand.