Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau Read Aloud Book Companion Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau, by Jennifer Berne.

With 28 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, practice plotting story events, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• Making Predictions
• Making Inferences
• Making Connections
• Sketch a Scene From the Story
• Theme
• Story Event Sort
• Character Inside & Out
• Character Feelings
• Character Development
• Overcoming Obstacles
• Character Acrostic Poem
• Thinking About the Text
• 3-2-1
• Sensory Details
• Timeline of Jacques Cousteau’s Life
• Dear Diary
• Reading Text and Illustrations
• Book Review
• Prep for a Podcast
• Biography Brochure
• Biography One-Pager
• Investigating Images
• Jacques on Social Media
• Plastic Pollution Project
• Protect Our Planet
• Quote Connection
• 3-Writing Prompts