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THE DEEP
BLUE SEA
By Audrey Wood
Before Reading
5 min
1. Have children look at the cover of the book and read the title aloud. Say:
Grades K–2
Theme:
True Stories
LINK TO COMMON CORE
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
STANDARD 2 (Grades K–2):
Ask and answer questions
about key details in a text
read aloud or information
presented orally.
OBJECTIVE:
Children will use information
in the text and pictures to
discuss key details in the story.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
• The Deep Blue Sea
• Chart paper
• Paper plates
• Markers or crayons
• Modeling dough
(assorted colors)
• Construction paper
• Scissors
Vital Vocabulary:
• Sea
• Middle
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The title of this book is The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors. Use the title of
the book and the picture on the cover to tell or predict what this book will
be about. (It will be about all of the different colors of things and animals in
the sea.)
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Say: Let’s count the fish. How many fish do you see? (nine) What do you
notice about the fish? (Possible answers: The fish are all different colors. The
fish are jumping out of the water.)
Note: This book does not contain page numbers. You may want to number
the pages yourself (starting with #1 on the main title page) to make it
easier to follow the instructions below.
During Reading
20 min
After reading the pages in each section, direct children to use the text and
pictures to support their answers to your questions.
1. Read pages 4–5.
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Point to the word blue. Say: This is the word blue. What do you notice about
it? (The letters of the word are blue.) As I read aloud the book, look for other
color words from our list.
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Say: Look at the picture on these pages. What words would you use to
describe this place? (Possible answers: blue, calm, peaceful, quiet, daytime)
2. Read pages 6–11. Ask:
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What color is the rock? (red) Where is it? (in the middle of the deep blue sea)
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What is on top of the rock? (a tree) What color is the tree? (green)
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Say: Each time we turn the page, something new is added to the picture.
What do you think will be added after the tree? (Possible answer: a coconut)
Why do you think this? Look for clues in the picture. (I see something growing
out of the tree.)
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What is getting closer and closer to the tree? (the white cloud)
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What do you think will be added after the nut? (Answers will vary. Possible
answer: a bird) Why do you think this? Look for clues in the picture. (A bird is
flying toward the tree.)
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During Reading (continued)
3. Read pages 12–17. Ask:
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What do you think will be added after the parrot?
(Answers will vary. Possible answer: a butterfly) Why
do you think this? Look for clues in the picture. (I
see a butterfly behind one of the leaves.)
What was added after the butterfly? (a spot) What
color is the spot? (black) Where is the black spot
located? (on the butterfly)
6. Display the remaining pages of the book, which
contain no text. Ask:
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How is the picture on pages 30–31 different from
the previous one? (Possible answers: The fish are
farther away from the island. The parrot is flying
away. The nut is in the water. The rainbow is gone. The
cloud is white. The sun is not covered by a cloud.)
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How is the picture on the last two pages different
from the previous one? (Possible answers: The fish,
the nut, and the cloud are farther away from the
island. The island looks like it is even farther away
from us. We cannot see the parrot anymore.)
4. Read pages 18–25.
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What shines over the sea, the rock, the tree, the
nut, the parrot, and the butterfly? (the sun) What
color is the sun? (yellow)
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Look at the picture on page 23. How does the
cloud change? (It turns dark and gray.) What does it
mean when clouds turn dark and gray? (It means a
storm is coming.)
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Look at the picture on pages 22–23. Before this,
the sea was calm and smooth. What do you notice
about the sea now? (There are waves crashing on
the island.)
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What do you notice about the leaves on the tree?
(The leaves are moving around.) What does the
movement of the leaves tell you? (The wind is
blowing.) What happened to the yellow sun? (The
storm cloud covered it.)
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Look at the picture on pages 24–25. What do you
see in the sea? (fishies) What are the fishies doing?
(playing) Why do you think the fishies come out
to play when there is a storm? (Answers will vary.
Possible answer: because they are used to water and
like to play in the waves)
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What do you notice about the brown nut? (It fell
off the tree.) Why do you think this happened? (The
wind blew it off.) What do you think might happen
next? (Answers will vary. Possible answer: It will rain.)
5. Read pages 26–29.
7. Let’s Summarize. Tell about what happened. (Possible
answer: Animals came to an island that had a tree on it. A
rain cloud appeared over the island. It rained, and then a
rainbow formed.)
After Reading
30 min
CONNECT TO ART: Create an Island of Colors
Tell children that they will create their own island of colors.
Have each child use a blue marker or crayon to color a
paper plate. Explain that this is the deep blue sea. Then
have children use assorted colors of modeling dough to
add a red rock, a green tree, and so on. Provide different
colors of construction paper for children to cut out fish
that they can add to their sea. If children want to add more
details from the story, encourage them to create a white
cloud, a gray cloud, a yellow sun, rain, and a rainbow out of
modeling dough or construction paper. Have children use
what they made to retell the story to a partner.
Wrap Up
5 min
Have children make connections between their own lives
and the book. Ask:
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What is the weather like now? (It is raining.) What
are the fish doing? (singing) What part of this story
could happen in real life? (Possible answer: It could
rain.) What part of this story could not happen in
real life? (Fish could not sing.)
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What is your favorite color? Did you see that color
in the book? If so, where did you see it? (Possible
answer: My favorite color is purple. The parrot was
purple. I also saw a purple fish, and there was purple
in the rainbow.)
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Look at the picture on pages 28–29. What do you
see over the island? (a rainbow) What colors do you
see in the rainbow? (purple, dark blue, light blue,
green, yellow, orange, red)
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What was your favorite part of the story? Why was
this your favorite part? (Possible answer: I liked when
the rainbow came out because it had pretty colors.)
TM ® & © Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Bruce Wood. Text copyright © 2005 by Audrey Wood. Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Bruce Wood. Published by Scholastic Inc.
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