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by Marcus Pfister
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Mrs. Pinson's Library
Mrs. Pinson's Library rated it 6 years ago
The Rainbow Fish is a great book about the importance of sharing and friendship. In the text, the Rainbow Fish brushes off all other fish when they comment on and want one of his beautiful scales. Soon, he learns to share them in order to be a good friend. This is a great text to provoke some awesom...
Miss Gothard's Book Blog
Miss Gothard's Book Blog rated it 7 years ago
The Rainbow Fish grabs students' attention before reading the book. The cover and the pages within provide color and texture to keep students interested in the book. The Rainbow Fish is a tale about a fish who has so much pride in his scales that he loses friends when he refuses to share them. An ac...
Bria's Bookshelf
Bria's Bookshelf rated it 7 years ago
AR: 3.3 Grade Level: PreK-3rd Summary: Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, is all about the value of friends. It teaches children that you cannot always stand alone. Sometimes you need help. Sometimes you have to make sacrafices! Together is always better! Idea: I absolutely love this book. I would mos...
tvines2
tvines2 rated it 8 years ago
This book is a great choice for children because it is colorful and creative for them to read. Each page has a different type of texture the main characters scales to grab the students attention. This story tells the story of a fish that is so prideful about his own scales, but loses friends because...
Miss Majors' Collection
Miss Majors' Collection rated it 8 years ago
This book is great for understanding differences between people around us. We may not look the same but may have common interests. I think this book would be good for any grade but for reading purposes it may be good for higher grades because of the language and how many words are on a page. I would...
Children's Literature
Children's Literature rated it 8 years ago
Grade Level: Pre-K-K, 1-2, 3-5 Lexile Level: AD410L The rainbow fish is a beautiful fish with many shimmering scales. When his friends come along and ask to have a shimmery scale, he tells all of them no and they all leave him. Then, when he wants to play with them, no one wants to play with him bec...
GreyJordan23
GreyJordan23 rated it 8 years ago
This book is about a fish with very beautiful scales, who is asked to give away one of those scales. The rainbow fish refuses and the other fish claims to never play with the rainbow fish again. So rainbow fish gets advice from the octopus who tells him to share his scales. Once he finds the other l...
Clint
Clint rated it 8 years ago
Grade: K Reading Level: AD410L The Rainbow Fish is a great book that focuses on a fish. This fish has to learn how to share with her friends. This is a great book to teach your students that same lesson by small group activities.
lward2
lward2 rated it 8 years ago
The Rainbow Fish is a story about a fish that is too proud of his beautiful, shiny scales to play with other fish. A blue fish comes along and asks for one of his scales, and the rainbow fish gets angry and says no. He starts to wonder why others are treating him so rudely, and eventually he comes t...
My Future Classroom Library
My Future Classroom Library rated it 8 years ago
This book is a great story for lower elementary students. It teaches students about learning to make new friendships. I think this would be great to use as a read aloud on the first day of school and have the students write an interesting fact about themselves or something they like on a scale shape...
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