ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS (Grades 3-5)
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Comprehension
Beginning Begin to speak with a few words or sentences, using some English phonemes and rudimentary English grammatical forms (e.g., single words or phrases).
Answer simple questions with one- to two-word responses.
Retell familiar stories and participate in short conversations by using appropriate gestures, expressions, and illustrative objects.
Early Intermediate Begin to be understood when speaking, but may have some inconsistent use of standard English grammatical form and sounds (e.g. plurals, simple past tense, pronouns [he/she]).
Ask and answer questions using phrases or simple sentences.
Restate and execute multistep oral directions.
Intermediate Ask and answer instructional questions with some supporting elements (e.g., “Is it your turn to go to the computer lab?”)
Listen attentively to stories/information and identify key details and concepts using both verbal and non-verbal responses.
Early Advanced Listen attentively to more complex stories/information on new topics across content areas, and identify the main points, and supporting details.
Advanced Listen attentively to stories and subject area topics, and identify the main points and supporting details.
Demonstrate understanding of idiomatic expressions by responding to and using such expressions appropriately (e.g., “Give me a hand.”)
Comprehension/Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Beginning Independently use common social greetings and simple repetitive phrases (e.g., “May I go and play?”).
Early Intermediate Orally identify the main points of simple conversations and stories that are read aloud using phrases or simple sentences.
Orally communicate basic needs (e.g., “May I get a drink of water?”).
Recite familiar rhymes, songs, and simple stories.
Intermediate Be understood when speaking, using consistent standard English grammatical forms and sounds; however, some rules may not be in evidence (e.g., third person singular, male and female pronouns).
Actively participate in social conversations with peers and adults on familiar topics by asking and answering questions and soliciting information.
Retell stories and talk about school related activities using expanded vocabulary, descriptive words, and paraphrasing.
Early Advanced Retell stories in greater detail including characters, setting, and plot, summary, and analysis.
Be understood when speaking using consistent standard English grammatical forms, sounds, intonation, pitch, and modulation, but may have random errors.
Actively participate and initiate more extended social conversations with peers and adults on unfamiliar topics by asking and answering questions, restating and soliciting information.
Recognize appropriate ways of speaking that vary based on purpose, audience, and subject matter.
Ask and answer instructional questions with more extensive supporting elements (e.g., “What part of the story was most important?”).
Use simple figurative language and idiomatic expressions to communicate ideas to a variety of audiences (e.g., “It’s raining cats and dogs.”).
Advanced Negotiate and initiate social conversations by questioning restating, soliciting information and paraphrasing.
Consistently use appropriate ways of speaking and writing that vary based on purpose, audience, and subject matter.
Identify the main ideas, points of view, and fact/fiction in broadcast and print media.
Speak clearly and comprehensibly using standard English grammatical forms, sounds, intonation, pitch and modulation.
WORD ANALYSIS
Concepts of Print, Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary and Concept Development
Beginning Recognizes English phonemes that correspond to phonemes
students already hear and produce while reading aloud
Early Intermediate While reading orally, recognize and produce English phonemes
that do not correspond to phonemes students already hear and produce (e.g., “a” in cat and final consonants).
Intermediate Pronounce most English Phonemes correctly while reading aloud.
Early Advanced Apply knowledge of common English morphemes in oral and
silent reading to derive meaning from literature and text in content area.
Advanced Apply knowledge of word relationships, such as roots and affixes, to derive meaning from literature and texts in content areas.
Beginning Recognize sound/symbol relationships in own writing.
Early Intermediate Recognize common English morphemes in phrases and simple sentences (e.g., basic syllabication rules and phonics).
Intermediate Pronounce most English phoenemes correctly while reading aloud.
Use common English morphemes in oral and silent reading.
Early Advanced Apply knowledge of common English morphemes in oral and silent reading to derive meaning from literature and texts in content areas.
Advanced Apply knowledge of word relationships, such as roots and affixes to derive meaning from literature and tests in content areas.
READING
Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary & Concept Development
Beginning Read aloud simple words in stories or games (e.g., nouns and adjectives). Respond appropriately to some social and academic interactions (e.g., simple question/answer, negotiate play).
Early Intermediate Apply knowledge of content related vocabulary to discussions and reading.
Read simple vocabulary phrases and sentences independently.
Use knowledge of English morphemes, phonics, and syntax to decode and interpret the meaning of unfamiliar words in simple sentences.
Demonstrate internalization of English grammar, usage, and work choice by recognizing and correcting some errors when speaking or reading aloud.
Read own writing of narrative and expository text aloud with some pacing, intonation, and expression
Intermediate Create a dictionary of frequently used words.
Use knowledge of English morphemes, phonics, and syntax to decode and interpret the meaning of unfamiliar words in written texts
Demonstrate internalization of English grammar, usage, and word choice by recognizing and correcting errors when speaking or reading aloud.
Read grade appropriate narrative and expository texts aloud with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
Use content related vocabulary in discussions and reading.
Recognize some common roots and affixes when attached to known vocabulary (e.g., speak, speaker).
Early Advanced Use knowledge of English morphemes, phonics and syntax to decode and interpret the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Recognize words that sometimes have multiple meanings in literature and texts in content areas (e.g., present (gift), present (time).
Use some common roots and affixes when attached to known vocabulary.
Recognize simple analogies and metaphors in literature and texts in content areas (e.g., “fly like a bird”).
Use decoding skills and knowledge of academic and social vocabulary to achieve independent reading.
Use some common idioms in discussions and reading (e.g., “scared silly”).
Read increasingly complex narrative and expository texts aloud with appropriate pacing, intonation and expression.
Advanced Apply knowledge of common roots and affixes when attached to known vocabulary.
Recognize that words sometimes have multiple meanings and apply this knowledge consistently.
Apply this knowledge of academic and social vocabulary to achieve independent reading.
Use common idioms, some analogies and metaphors in discussion and reading.
Use a standard dictionary to determine measuring of unknown words.
Read narrative and expository text aloud with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
Reading Comprehension
Comprehension & Analysis of Grade-Level Appropriate Text
Beginning (Blank)
Early Intermediate (Blank)
Intermediate Use detailed sentences to orally respond to comprehension questions about written text (e.g., ”The brown bear lives with his family in the forest.”).
Read and identify text features such as titles, table of contents, chapter headings, diagrams, charts, glossaries, and indexes in written texts.Read and use detailed sentences to orally identify main ideas and use them to make predictions and provide supporting details for predictions made.
Early Advanced Describe main ideas and supporting details of a text.
Generate and respond to comprehension questions related to the text.
Describe relationships between text and their experience.
Advanced Use resources in the text (such as ideas, illustrations, titles, etc.) to draw inferences, conclusions, and to make generalizations.
Comprehension
Beginning Respond orally to stories read to them by answering factual comprehension questions, using one- or two-word responses (e.g., “brown bear”).
Orally identify relationship between simple text read to them and their won experience using key words and/or phrases.
Understand and follow simple one-step directions for classroom or work-related activities.
Early Intermediate Read and listen to simple stories and demonstrate understanding by using simple sentences to respond to explicit detailed questions (e.g., “The bear is brown.”)
Read and orally identify relationships between written text and their own experience using simple sentences.
Understand and follow simple two-step directions of classroom or work-related activities.
Intermediate Read and use more detailed sentences to orally describe relationships between text and their own experiences.
Understand and follow some multi-step directions for classroom-related activities.
Early Advanced/ Locate and identify the function of text features such as
Advanced format, diagrams, charts, glossaries, and indexes.
Comprehension and Analysis of Appropriate Text
Beginning Identify the basic sequences of events in stories read to them, using key words or pictures
Identify the main idea in a story read aloud using key words and/or phrases.
Point out text features such as title, table of contents, and chapter headings.
Early Intermediate Orally identify the basic sequence of written text using simple sentences.
Read and orally identify the main ideas and use them to draw inferences about written text using simple sentences.
Read and identify basic text features such as title, table of contents, and chapter headings.
Intermediate Read and orally identify examples of fact/opinion and cause/effect in literature and content area texts.
Early Advanced Describe main ideas and supporting details of a text.
Generate and respond to comprehension questions related to the text.
Describe relationships between text and their experience.
Advanced Use resources in the text (such as ideas, illustrations, titles, etc.) to draw inferences, conclusions, and to make generalizations.
V. VOCABULARY
environment climate oxygen shelter mollusks adaptation camouflage mimicry instinct migration
hibernation nutrient predators protection carbon dioxide
photosynthesis ecosystem individual population community
habitat producer consumer decomposer food chain
food web competition extinct symbiosis energy pyramid
endangered threatened biome wetlands conservation
intertidal zone estuary pollution salt marsh abyssal zone
near-shore zone benthic zone mammal fish reptile
open-ocean zone pelagic zone bird species characteristics
endoskeleton exoskeleton invertebrate ocean oceanographer
cold-blooded conservation future habitat invertebrate
marine biologist phyla phylum pods vertebrate
warm-blooded crustaceans baleen echolocation bioluminescence
zooplankton prey blubber fluke ocean trenches
abyssal zone enemies plankton
VI. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
Poetry:
Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
Armour, Richard. Strange Monsters of the Sea
Bender, Lione. Creatures of the Deep
Foster, John. Sea Poems
Heard, Georgia. Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky
Prelutsky, Jack. The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Windham, Sophie. The Mermaid and Other Sea Poems
Worth, Valerie. All the Small Poems
Teacher Resources:
Caduto, M. and Bruchac, J., Keepers of the Earth
Fisher, A., Stories California Indians Told
Harcourt Science, California Edition, Harcourt School Publishers
Books- Fiction
Audry Wood, The Rainbow Bridge
Scott O’dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Clements, Andrew, Big Al
Cole, Joanna, The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor
Cooney, Barbara, Hattie and the Wild Wave
Cooney, Barbara, Island Boy
Cummings, Priscilla, Chadwick and the Garplegrunge
Guiberson, Brenda, Lobster Boat. Holt
Heller, Ruth, How to Hide an Octopus & Other Sea Creatures
Hulme, Joy, Sea Squares
Kimmel, Eric, Anansi Goes Fishing
Kipling, Rudyard, New Illustrated Just So Stories
Koch, Michelle, By the Sea
Levinson, Riki, Our Home Is the Sea
Liddledale, Freya, The Magic Fish
Lionni, Leo, Swimmy
Martin, Antoinette T, Famous Seaweed Soup
McDonald, Megan, Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
Paraskevas, Betty, Monster Beach
Roop, Peter & Connie, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Tafuri, Nancy, Follow Me!
Van Allsburg, Chris, The Wretched Stone.
Walton, Rick & Ann, Something's Fishy! Jokes About Sea Creatures
Zolotow, Charlotte, The Seashore Book
Books- Non- Fiction
Adler, David, Over Amazing Ocean
Barkan, Joanne, Creatures that Glow
Bendick, Jeanne., Exploring an Ocean Tide Pool
Bramwell, Martyn, The Oceans
Doubilet, Anne, Under the Sea from A to Z
French, Vivian. Why The Sea Is Salty?
Galan, Mark A., There’s Still Time: The Success of the Endangered Species Act
Gibbons, Gail. Sunken Treasure
Hirschi, Ron, Ocean
Hirschi, Ron, Where Are My Puffins, Whales, and Seals? Bantam Books
Jenkins, Steven, What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You?
Jenson, Dr. Anthony, Under Sea Mission
Lauber, Patricia. An Octopus Is Amazing
Lauber, Patricia, Who Eats Wat? Food Chains and Food Webs
MacDonald, Suse, Sea Shapes Harcourt
Matthew, Rupert, Record Breakers of the Sea Troll
McMillan, Bruce, Beach for Birds. Houghton
Mud-Ruth, Maria, The Ultimate Ocean Book. Western
Nielson, Barbara, The Great Barrier Reef
Oppenheim, Joanne, Oceanarium. Bantam Books
Pallota, Jerry, The Ocean Alphabet Book. Charlesbridge
Pallota, Jerry, The Underwater Alphabet Book. Charlesbridge
Parker, Steve, Eyewitness Books-Seashore. Knopf
Pope, Joyce, Seashore. Knopf
Rotner, Shelley & Kreisler, Ocean Day. Macmillan
Rowland, Della, Whales and Dolphins. Macmillan
Segaloff, Nat & Erickson, A Reef Comes to Life
Simon, Seymour, Oceans
Sipera, Paul P., I Can Be An Oceanographer
Taylor, Barbara, Shoreline. Dorling Kindersley
Wallace, Karen. Think of an Eel.Candlewick
Wheeler, Alwyne, Fishes. Usborne-Haye
Zim, Herbert & Ingle. Seashore. Golden Book
National Geographic
Monterey Bay, Feb., 1995
Sea Otters, Feb., 1990
Diving Beneath Arctic Ice, Aug. 1973
Life without Light, Oct. 1996
Deep Sea Geysers, Oct. 1992
Tide Pools, Feb., 1986
The Ocean, Dec. 1998
Whales, Dec. 1988
Oases of Life in the Cold Abyss, Oct. 1977
Tragedy in Alaska Waters, Aug. 1989
Rebirth of a Deep-Sea Vent, Nov. 1994
Ten Years After Exxon Valdez, Mar. 1999
Atlantic Sea Geysers, Oct. 1992
Return of the Sea Otters, Oct. 1971
Sperm Whales, Nov. 1995
Technology:
Sea World
www.seaworld.org/
Friends of the Sea Otter
125 Ocean View Blvd., Suite 204
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
seaotter@seaotter.org
Whale Museum—Friday Harbor
Adopt an Orca Whale
http://www.whale-museum.org/
Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.mbayaq.org/
Virtual Dive into the Kelp Forest
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/monterey/ax/primary_fs.html
Food Chains and Food Webs
http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/foodweb/foodweb.html
Project G.L.A.D.
La Habra City School District
California Ocean Habitats
Level 4
Planning Pages
I. FOCUS AND MOTIVATION
Inquiry Chart
Oceanographer awards- bookmarks, notebooks, buttons, camera
Observation chart- Ocean Zones
Poetry
Songs
Read alouds
Realia- Shells, starfish, etc.
Big book- The Important Thing About the Ocean is…,
I Just Thought You’d Like to Know
Signal words
Current Events
Foods from the ocean
II. INPUT
Pictorial input charts- world map, ocean ecosystems, Ocean Zones
Comparative Input- Fish/Whale
Graphic Organizer- Animal Kingdom
10/2 lecture with Primary Language
Shared reading- big book
Graphic organizer- food chain
Read aloud
III. GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
T-graph for social skills- Respect
Listen and Sketch - Rainbow Bridge
Cooperative learning groups
Process grid
Farmer-in-the-dell chart/chant
Story Map
Mind Mapping
Poetry/Chants – Modeling, highlighting
Picture file cards- classifying, categorizing
List, group label
Numbered heads together
Strip books
Personal interaction
Expert groups
Team maps
IV. READING/ WRITING ACTIVITIES
A. Total Class
Model-shared reading
Group frame
Found Poetry
Models shared writing, skills highlighted in context, copied and put in students’ portfolios
Expository, based on process grid
Poetry, based on poetry frame
Narrative, based on legend or input
B. Co-op Reading/Writing
Team Tasks
Focused reading/partner reading
Interactive reading
Strip paragraphs
Oral book sharing
in primary language and heterogeneous groupings
Flip chants
Strip books
Ear-to-ear reading
Mind Mapping
Story Map
Big Book
Reader’s Theater
Flexible Group Reading
C. Individual Activities
Mind-mapping
Interactive journals
Silent Sustained Writing
Learning logs
D.E.A.R. time (drop everything and read)
Readers’ Workshop
D. Writers’ Workshop
Choices
Mini Lesson
Conferencing
Author’s Chair
-nudges
-questioning/ listening
V. Extended Activities For Integration (Multiple Intelligences)
Ocean Music
Music/Movement
Role-Playing/Drama
Art -- Crayon Resist
Adopt a Whale (Friday Harbor Whale Museum)
Guided Imagery
Listen and Sketch- Rainbow Bridge
Science Explorations/ Experiments
Poetry
Songs
Right Brain Activities
VI. Closure
Personal Exploration
Process charts and learning
Team Exploration- Big Book
Student Generated Test
Portfolios/Conferences
Teaching of Study Skills and test-taking skills
Alternative Assessment strategies
-Videos
-Plays, presentations, demonstrations
-Build projects
-Big Books
Project GLAD
La Habra City School District
(Level 4)
Sample Daily Lesson Plan
DAY 1
FOCUS/ MOTIVATION
Cognitive Content Dictionary (CCD) -signal word (epipelagic zone)
Oceanographer Awards (3 standards)
Big Book – I Just Thought You’d Like to Know
Observation Charts- Sea Otter
-in teams-observe and agree on a comment/observation/
question and one person writes
Inquiry Charts
Guest Speaker
Portfolios-- Pass out scientist notebook
INPUT
Graphic Organizer Tree of Life
Kingdom of Animals—Classification
10-2 Lecture
READING/WRITING
Sketch and describe
What questions came to your mind as you saw it?
INPUT
Poetry Chanting “I’m an Oceanographer”
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
-Team Points
Picture files (Orally or written) List, group, label
Characteristics of Animals
Exploration Chart
Poetry
Group Challenge Question of the Day
INPUT
Pictorial Input- Ocean Zones
10-2 Lecture
READING/WRITING
Interactive Journals
Personal Interaction
Flexible Group Reading
WRITER’S WORKSHOP
Set standards, explain free choice writing
Mini lesson – different genre and authors
Students write, teacher conferences
Author’s chair
CLOSURE
-I’m an Oceanographer
Day 2
FOCUS/MOTIVATION
CCD-- Signal Word (adaptation)
Oceanographer Awards
Share Home/ School Connection
Review Graphic Organizer of Animal Kingdom
Poetry “I’m an Oceanographer”-- Highlight Words
INPUT
Pictorial Input Chart –Sea Otter (include adaptations)
-10/2, active participation, primary language
Poetry –“Otters Here, Otters There” with picture files
FOCUS/MOTIVATION
Review Ocean Zone Pictorial Input
INPUT
-ELD Review
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
Farmer in the Dell – Sea Otters
-Reading
-Trading Game
-Flip Chant
READING/ WRITING
Read aloud – expository text “Sea Otters”
Personal Interaction: What was the most interesting thing you learned about…?
Interactive Journals
WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
Mini - lesson -different authors write in different ways- Poetry, Picture Book
Students write, share, and teacher conferences
Author’s Chair
CLOSURE
Read aloud - Legend
Guest Speaker- Oceanographer/ Scuba Diver
Home/ School Connection
Process Charts
DAY 3
FOCUS/ MOTIVATION
-Sketch definition
Awards- Golden Pen
Share Home/School Connection
Review Pictorial Input chart with word cards “Sea Otter”
Read aloud-
INPUT
Sea Otter Rescue
Class retells and/or flexible grouping retelling
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
INPUT
Poetry “Yes Ma’am”
Read aloud- Native American Legend
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
Expert Groups – Sperm Whale, Tubeworm
Teacher Models, Whole Class adds to Process Grid
Ocean Zones Pictorial
Farmer in the Dell
Tree of Life – Graphic Organizer
Mind Map
Pictorial Sea Otter
Flip Chant
READING/WRITING
Learning Logs -three things
Interactive Journal
WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
-poetry booklet
-silent reading
-partner reading
-read group frame - manipulate
-manipulate pocket poetry
-read from portfolio
-read from books in own language
Teacher conference/ flexible grouping
Students respond to reading in log. What I read. How I liked it.
Total class - teacher models questioning
Who read something new? Something they liked. What did you like? etc.
CLOSURE
Process Charts
Home School Connection
DAY 4:
FOCUS/ MOTIVATION
CCD- Signal word
Awards – Oceanographer Notebook
Share Home/ School Connection
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
READING/WRITING
Cooperative Strip Paragraph
-model writing process with editing checklist
-Expository, respond, revise, edit
-Bilingual tutor takes group frame in primary language
FOCUS/ MOTIVATION
Review Charts
Read story/ legend
Poetry Chanting “Sound Off”
Review Poetry Chants—“Yes, Ma’am”
INPUT
Review Narrative Input with word cards/ conversation bubbles
READING/WRITING
Learning Log—Retell Narrative Input
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
Expert Groups – Angler Fish, Sea Cucumber
Expert groups share add to Process Grid
-Teacher models team tasks
-team tasks during expert groups
Team Exploration Chart
READING/WRITING
Found Poetry
Interactive Journals
READING/WRITING CHOICE TIME
Writer’s Workshop
Model choices
Teacher Conferences
CLOSURE
Process charts
Home/School Connections
DAY 5:
FOCUS/MOTIVATION
CCD - Signal word
Awards
Share Home/School Connection
Read aloud (narrative, poetry, expository text)
Process charts- read narrative, poetry, expository
Chant poems
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
READING/ WRITING WORKSHOP
Flexible Groups- Clunkers/ Links Reading Strategy
Emergent Readers’ Group-- Co-op Strip Paragraph
-Strip Book- Similes- Sea Otters are as . . .
- Create an Ocean Animal
Walk the Walls- Focused Reading
Mini Lesson
Editing Checklist
Publishing
GUIDED ORAL PRACTICE
Ear to Ear Reading
Listen and Sketch -- Native American Legend
-The Rainbow Bridge
What can we do about vanishing ecosystems?
CLOSURE
Team Presentations
Process all charts
Process Inquiry Chart
Foods from the ocean- Kelp
Letter home to parents
Team Jeopardy
Pictorial Input Charts at end of unit
I just thought you might like to know that many
animals live in the ocean
I just thought you might like to know that many animals live in the ocean.
The sea otter is the smallest water mammal. They are from the Mustelidae family. They are in the same family as the weasel, ferret, skunk, and badger.
The sea otter lives close to shore along the Pacific Coast and Alaska. The giant kelp beds are its favorite habitat.
Sea otters have thick fur all over their bodies. They roll over in the water to trap air among the long hairs of their fur. These air bubbles, and thick fur, help to keep their skin dry and their bodies warm.
Sea otters can dive up to 180 feet to reach its prey of sea urchins, crabs, clams, squid, and abalone. The sea otter is a carnivore that floats on its back to eat its prey. When they eat the place a stone on their chest and smash the shellfish against the rock.
I just thought you might like to know.
I just thought you might like to know that many animals live in the ocean.
Sperm whales live in the twilight zone, or the mesopelagic zone, which is 650 to 3,300 feet below the surface of the water.
Sperm whales have teeth in their lower jaw that can measure up to seven inches long.
Sperm whales are an endangered species with only about 200,000 alive worldwide.
I just thought you might like to know.
I just thought you might like to know that many animals live in the ocean.
Sea cucumbers are cylinder-shaped invertebrate animals that live in seas worldwide. Their body is soft, elongated, and leathery.
Sea cucumbers are part of the family echinoderm, which means spiny skinned. They are in the same family as a sea urchin, sea star, and sand dollar. They are one of the 900 Holothuroidea species.
They are found in a variety of sea floor habitats, from warm tropical waters to cold deep sea trenches.
Sea cucumbers are decomposers that eat decaying matter that floats in the water or is in the sand.
I just thought you might like to know.
I just thought you might like to know that many animals live in the ocean.
Tubeworms are invertebrates that live near hydrothermal vents at the very bottom of the ocean called the Hadal Zone.
They have a protective shell around themselves with a red tip on top that contains blood.
Tubeworms are in the same family as other types of worms like the fanworm and catworm.
Tubeworms survive by chemosynthesis, which means they are able to make their own food.
I just thought you might like to know.
I just thought you might like to know that many animals live in the ocean.
The deep sea angler fish lives in the bathypelagic midnight zone.
It carries its own hook, line, and bait.
The angler uses bioluminescence to lure prey.
Anglers have soft bones, jelly-like flesh, and dark gray to reddish black colors.
I just thought you might like to know.
POETRY
BOOKLET
I’m an Oceanographer
I’m an oceanographer and I’m here to say
I study the four oceans everyday
Sometimes I write a paper
Sometimes I read a book
Sometimes I just dive and take a look
Shelf, slopes, and zones too
Doing the Oceanographer Bugaloo!
The oceans’ five zones have different kinds of creatures
The further down you dive, there’s lots of different features.
The sunlight zone has many familiar fish
But the twilight zone has some you’d never wish!
Shelf, slopes, and zones too
Doing the Oceanographer Bugaloo!
I study the ocean with special technology
Submersibles and satellites make it easy to see
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic too
If you like studying oceans, here’s the job for you!
Shelf, slopes, and zones too
Doing the Oceanographer Bugaloo!
Anna Dorado
Yes Ma’am
Is this the epipelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
Is this the epipelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
How far down? Down to 650 feet
Who lives there? The frolicking sea otter
Give me other examples. Sea Turtle and Great White Shark
Is this the mesopelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
Is this the mesopelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
How far down? Down to 3300 feet
Who lives there? The giant sperm whale
Give me other examples. The viper and the hatchet fish
Is this the bathypelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
Is this the bathypelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
How far down? Down to 13,000 feet
Who lives there? The ugly angler fish
Give me other examples. Gulper eel and possum shrimp
Is this the abyssopelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
Is this the abyssopelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
How far down? to 20,000 feet
Who lives there? The wriggly sea cucumber
Give me other examples. Tripod fish and squids
Is this the hadalpelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
Is this the hadalpelagic zone? Yes Ma’am
How far down? Below 20,000 feet
Who lives there? The flexible tube worms
Give me other examples. Giant clams and starfish
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Angler Fish I know an angler fish A very strange fish A very strange fish That lives in the mesopelagic zone With a glowing wiggly lure And a massive head and numerous sharp-pointed teeth That attracts deep-sea animals
Susan McCoy
Otters Here, Otters There
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