CHALLENGING WORDS

bassoon
centipede
kangaroo
leopard
octopus
ostrich
penguin
permanent
porcupine
umbrella

SUMMARY

There are certain presents you should never give certain pets. For example………Never give a hippo a tricycle.

--- Conversation Questions---

(1) / Describe the story.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What present should you never be given?
(2) / Imagine what the cat on page 2 was thinking.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What would you think of a fish with an umbrella?
(3) / Estimate how long the ostrich’s neck is.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Estimate how long your neck is.
(4) / Remember a time you got a present you did not need or want.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Tell me what kind of gifts you like to receive.
(5) / Explain what dental floss is used for.
(Answer) / To clean between your teeth.
(Follow Up) / Do you use it after brushing your teeth?
(6) / Find page 4 and tell me what cooled the sheep.
(Answer) / Lemonade and a fan.
(Follow Up) / How do you cool yourself off?
(7) / Look for what happens when you give a porcupine a balloon.
(Answer) / The balloon pops.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever seen a real porcupine?
(8) / Name how many arms an octopus has.
(Answer) / Eight.
(Follow Up) / Can you name something else that has eight legs? (A spider)
(9) / Hunt for what is happening on page 30.
(Answer) / They are all reading this book.
(Follow Up) / Is this book a silly present or a good present?
(10) / Search for what the silly present was on page 8.
(Answer) / Pogo stick.
(Follow Up) / How high do you think they went?
Activities
1. / Make a list of silly gifts you would never want to get and a list you that you would want to get.
2. / Draw one picture from the book and label it.
3. / Write the title, author and illustrator.
4. / List four animals not in the book and next to each one write down a gift, then tell if it is a silly gift or a good gift.
Introductions
1. / Show cover of book and ask what they think it will be about. Say, let’s read and see if you are right.
2. / Bring several items to show child and ask if any of them are things they would like to get as a gift. Say, let’s read and see what kind of gifts the characters in our book get.
3. / Show child an umbrella and ask if they would like to get one for a birthday present.

Book Title: Never Give a Fish an Umbrella

Author: Mike Thaler / Illustrator: Jerry Smath
ISBN: 0-8167-3904-8 / # of Text Pages: 30 Book Level:
Building Oral Vocabulary
1 / never / 19 / earmuffs / 28 / bib
Prediction Questions
5 / What animal do you think will be next?
13 / Guess what silly present will be given next.
29 / Predict what book it will be.

This resource is provided by KYREADS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.