Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Sunken Treasure

Use Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In this nonfiction book, readers will learn about the Atocha, one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time. The Atocha and the treasure it was carrying sank off the coast of Florida in 1622, but no one was able to recover it until the 1960s. This underwater adventure will capture the curiosity of readers while they practice advanced application of various comprehension strategies.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Sunken Treasure in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with Sunken Treasure

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Asking Questions with Sunken Treasure

This book and lesson plan are ideal for readers who are working to advance their comprehension by asking questions while reading. The world described in this nonfiction book will likely be new to your students, so readers will naturally ask questions to help them dig deeper into the topic of this text.
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Determining Importance with Sunken Treasure

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Determining Importance with Sunken Treasure

This lesson plan is an excellent resource for supporting students who are working on determining importance with longer, more informative texts. This lesson plan encourages readers to stop at the end of each section to determine which details are the most important to remember and which apply to the main idea of the story.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Sunken Treasure

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Retelling & Summarizing with Sunken Treasure

Sunken Treasure is a good choice for advanced readers who are practicing retelling and summarizing with higher-level texts. The author uses headings to move the reader through the information in the book. This lesson plan will teach readers how to gather information across a longer, multi-section nonfiction text.
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Understanding Text Structure with Sunken Treasure

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Understanding Text Structure with Sunken Treasure

The author of Sunken Treasure uses multiple nonfiction text structures to tell the story of the Atocha. This gives readers an opportunity to practice navigating and drawing out important facts from different organizational structures.
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Visualizing with Sunken Treasure

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Visualizing with Sunken Treasure

The detailed text and illustrations in Sunken Treasure make it excellent for supporting a lesson on visualizing with more sophisticated readers. Students will apply what they already know about sunken ships and marine archaeology to construct mental images while reading. They can then compare their visualizations with the book's illustrations to make sure they're on the right track.
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Suffixes with Sunken Treasure

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Suffixes with Sunken Treasure

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adding suffix -ly to a base word is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with suffixes.

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Vocabulary Connections with Sunken Treasure

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Vocabulary Connections with Sunken Treasure

This set of vocabulary development resources for Sunken Treasure highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Running Record with Sunken Treasure

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Running Record with Sunken Treasure

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Sunken Treasure. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Just for Fun with Sunken Treasure

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Just for Fun with Sunken Treasure

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.

 

Asking Questions with Sunken Treasure (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Determining Importance with Sunken Treasure (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Retelling & Summarizing with Sunken Treasure (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Sunken Treasure (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Visualizing with Sunken Treasure (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Just for Fun with Sunken Treasure (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Sunken Treasure
Author: Gail Gibbons
Genre: Nonfiction
Themes: History, Adventure
ISBN: 9780064460972
Publisher's Summary:
A rotting hull of a ship...lost gold...coins...gems...sunken treasure! Treasure hunting is a big business. Searchers use metal detectors and sonar to locate treasure on the ocean floor. Divers use high-powered machinery to uncover objects buried in the sand and to raise them to the surface. And more than just treasures are discovered. A whole window into the past is opened up. A salvage can take months or even years. But it's worth it!
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