Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island,
“Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island” is an award-winning storybook app, designed to engage kids with reading in a new and fun way, while sparking curiosity and creativity.
Educational Features
Reading
- Improves fluency with highlighted text that corresponds with audio.
- Supports comprehension with fluency improvement.
- Increases retention with the improved comprehension.
- Supports comprehension with Text to Self, Text to Text, and Text to World discussion strategies.
Discussion Questions
Created to increase higher level thinking skills with upper levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Activities
Classroom activities align with Common Core State Standards and use Bloom’s higher level thinking skills.
Cross Curricular
In addition to literacy, this app addresses science and social studies.
Technology
Incorporates technology in activities to align with Common Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness.
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Following are curriculum activities developed for award-winning storybook app, “Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island.”
Each activity complies with Common Core State Standards should that be a requirement.
Clue Poem Activity
Subjects: Language Arts
Students will label the rhyme scheme of clue poems in the app Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island and then will create a clue poem and present it as a mystery to solve.
Download Clue Poem activity PDF here
A Buggy Story
Subjects: Language Arts and Science
Students will write, illustrate, and publish a story about a bug
Note: Also see Fun Fact Video entitled Bugs for Dinner
Download A Buggy Story activity PDF here
I’m a Teacher!
Subjects: Language Arts
Students will illustrate, write, and audio record a three minute lesson to teach about something that he or she treasures in life
Download I’m a Teacher! activity PDF here
Researching Quicksand
Subjects: Language Arts, Science
Student will brainstorm a topic about quicksand and then will then present important facts about the topic.
Download Researching Quicksand activity PDF here.
Making Quicksand
Subjects: Language Arts, Science
Student will listen to a video’s instructions and apply them to creating quicksand.
Note: See Fun Fact Video here and the ingredient needed is corn starch.
Download Making Quicksand activity PDF here
Treasure Kai Writing Prompt
Subjects: Language Arts, Science
Student will write a “How to” paragraph, explaining how to __________. (Teacher-Assigned Topics)
Download Treasure Kai Writing Prompt activity PDF here.
Treasure Kai Prepositions Activity
Subjects: Language Arts
Students will write sentences that use prepositional phrases, which describe an object that I have selected; they will also create a visual of the object and audio record their reading these sentences.
Download the Smarty Activity: Prepositions PDF here.
Download the “Treasure Kai” Text and Prepositions Activity PDF here.
Download the answers to the Text and Prepositions PDF here.
Download the PowerPoint/PDF presentation about Prepositions here.