Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts:

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Unique Fish Shaped Reading Incentive Charts

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Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts: These fish shaped reading sticker charts will help you to encourage your students to read 8 different genres of literature. These reading charts will help your students dive into reading and become enthusiastic about reading different genres of literature!

By using a large variety of these different fish templates, you will be able to create a Dive Into Reading A Variety of Books bulletin board display that contains an abundance of different types of sea life on it that will capture everyone's attention.

These Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts provide you with everything that you need to encourage your students to read 8 different genres of literature and reward them as they are making progress towards achieving this reading goal.

By using these unique fish reading incentive charts, you will be providing motivation and positive reinforcement for your students to read 8 different genres of literature within the time period that you select.

This reading incentive program is divided into eight genres: fantasy, mystery, adventure, science fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction biography, nonfiction information, and a free choice selection.

Your students will enjoy taking their completed Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts home with them when they have reached their reading goal and sharing this achievement with their parents. The parents of your students will appreciate the extra effort that you have put into promoting reading different genres of literature in your classroom.

I grew up in Florida and I learned how to scuba dive when I was 18. Above is a picture of me diving in Cozumel, Mexico. I have lived in Guam, Hawaii, and Indonesia and while I was in those locations, I had the opportunity to dive in some of the world's most beautiful coral reefs.

I always wanted to create a bulletin board display that would represent the beautiful scenery, fish, and animals that I observed living in the ocean.

I tried to include sea life that swims and also sea life that you would find along the sand in these fish Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts, so that the finished effect would be a bulletin board display with sea life swimming in the water and sea life along the sand on the bottom of the ocean.

The angel fish, puffer fish, jelly fish, turtle, butterfly fish, clown fish, and sting ray are sea life that would swim in the ocean. The eel, sea snail, and sea snake would be found along the sand at the bottom of the ocean.

To create this effect, you need to use blue bulletin board paper for your background. Then, on the bottom section of your bulletin board, use brown bulletin board paper to create the sand at the bottom of the ocean. Cut the brown paper so that it has little hills on it, and so that your sand is not flat. If you look at the background of the banner that is provided in these sets, it will give you a good idea of how to design your bulletin board's background of a blue ocean and brown sand.

These uniquely shaped Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts contain:

• 11 Different Black and White Fish Templates
• 11 Different Color Fish Templates
• Student Award Certificate in color and black and white
• Matching 5 page bulletin board display banner
• Large Dolphin Displays
• Large Whale Displays
• Fish Bulletin Board Accent Pieces

These Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts will make a colorful ocean bulletin board display that will help you to motivate your students to read a variety of different genres of literature.

By giving each of your students a different fish sticker chart template, you will have an ocean bulletin board display that contains 11 different types of sea life.

These Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts include 11 different fish templates. Each template takes up the majority of the space on one piece of paper, although a few of these fish are on two pages, and there are two templates that are glued together.

Each fish set contains black and white templates for you to use if you want your students to color their sticker charts themselves. Each fish set also contains two color templates for you to choose from. I have provided a left and right copy of each fish template so that your bulletin board display of these sticker charts will contain fish swimming in both directions.

Below is an example of the Angel Fish Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts in black and white and color templates. To save space on this page, I will only be showing the color templates for the rest of these fish sticker charts.

I personally like to print out the color templates of the fish for my students to use. I think that the color templates make for a very vibrant and eye catching bulletin board display of my students genre reading sticker charts.

I select a variety of different colored fish templates, facing both left and right, and cut them out myself. I write each student's name on a different template and then I laminate all of these Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts. By doing this, later when I take each student's fish chart off of my bulletin board, the chart does not accidentally rip. I also think that it looks impressive to parents to send home these colored laminated fish sticker chart templates when they are completed, so that my students can post them in their bedroom, or on the refrigerator, as a sign of their reading achievement.

After students have completed reading a book in one of the genre categories, I give my students a small sticker that fits inside each box on their charts, and then they go to the bulletin board and place their sticker in the correct genre box.

I let my students choose the order in which they read their books and complete their genre fish reading chart, so all of my students are reading different genres of literature at the same time for their independent reading program.

I realize that not all teachers are able to print out color templates for each of their students, so I have provided black and white templates. You can have your students color their genre fish reading sticker charts themselves using the black and white templates.

In addition to the 11 different fish templates in this set of teaching resources, I have designed a matching bulletin board banner, student award certificate, large dolphins, large whales, and matching bulletin board accent pieces.

Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts
What's Included:

There are 11 different fish sticker chart templates in this set of teaching resources. Each fish has a black and white template and a color template for you to choose from.

1. Angel Fish
2. Jelly Fish
3. Moray Eel
4. Puffer Fish
5. Sea Snail
6. Sea Turtle
7. Butterfly Fish
8. Clown Fish
9. Sea Horse
10. Sea Snake
11. Sting Ray

Each fish sticker chart has 9 sticker boxes for the following genres of literature:

1. Fantasy
2. Mystery
3. Adventure
4. Science Fiction
5. Realistic Fiction
6. Historical Fiction
7. Nonfiction Biography
8. Nonfiction Information
9. Free Choice Selection

This sticker chart set also contains the following teaching resources:

• Student Award Certificate (color and black and white awards)
• 5 Page Bulletin Board Display Banner
• Large Dolphin Display Facing Left
• Large Dolphin Display Facing Right
• Large Whale Display Facing Left
• Large Whale Display Facing Right

Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts: Color Templates

Each fish contains both black and white and color templates for you to choose from. Due to lack of space, I will just be giving visual examples of the color templates below.

Reading Award Certificate:

These Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts are a wonderful way to positively reinforce your students for reading a variety of different genres of literature. If you want to take this a step further and recognize your students' reading accomplishments of achieving this goal, I have designed a matching student award certificate.

You can present this reading award to your students when they have reached their goal of reading 9 different books. I have designed color and black and white copies of this award for you to choose from.

Your students will be excited to take their completed genre fish reading charts home with them, along with their reading award. Their parents will be impressed with the extra effort that you have put forth in positively reinforcing your students to read a wide variety of different genres.

Below are examples of the matching student award certificates that are included in this set. These awards also come in a black and white version.

Bulletin Board Display Banner:

Many teachers like to make classroom bulletin board displays featuring their students' reading incentive charts. These sticker chart displays provide a strong visual reminder to students of the reading goal that they are trying to achieve.

I know that it takes teachers a lot of valuable time to assemble their bulletin board displays. Many teachers spend hours of time cutting out large display letters or making a banner on their own at home on their computer.

This time is valuable and better spent on developing your classroom curriculum and grading papers, so I have designed a matching 5 page banner for your bulletin board display.

If you have access to a laminating machine, you can laminate your banner so that it is durable and you can use it again next year.

Bulletin Board Accent Pieces:

This Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts set includes two large whale bulletin board displays facing left and right.

Each large whale display is a 3 template banner that is glued together and then cut out as one large whale display. These whales are approximately 18 inches in length and 7 inches in width when they are assembled together and cut out.

This Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts set includes two large dolphin bulletin board displays facing left and right.

Each large dolphin display is a 3 template banner that is glued together and then cut out as one large dolphin display. These dolphins are approximately 18 inches in length and 7 inches in width when they are assembled together and cut out.

Genre Reading Fish Bulletin Board Accent Pieces: Do you want to add some colorful accent pieces to your students' fish sticker charts bulletin board display?

This set of matching fish will help you put the finishing touches on your bulletin board display. This set includes 9 fish with the genre titles on them, 14 fish with reading quotes on them that promote reading, and 40 different sized and colored fish templates. You can also use these 40 bulletin board accent pieces for any other ocean theme that you teach during the school year.

Below are 9 different fish that each contain the words of the 9 genres that students need to read to complete their fish sticker charts.

There are 14 different fish with slogans on them that promote reading in this set.

The sea horse says "Dive into a variety of books!" and the moray eel says "Reading a variety of genres is EEL-LECTRIFYING!"

The sea snake says "For goodness SNAKES, read a variety of literature!" and the clown fish says "Which genre do you like reading best?"

The angel fish says "Reading books will give you a colorful vocabulary!" and the butterfly fish says "This school of fish loves to read!"

The clown fish says "Dive into the different genres of literature" and the puffer fish says "PUFF UP your vocabulary by reading books!"

The jelly fish says "Drift away to new adventures with reading!" and the sea horse says "Curl up with a great book!"

The sting ray says "Reading will bring you a RAY of knowledge!" and the crab says "Claw onto a great book!"

The turtle says "Don't hide in your shell! Read a book today!" and the sea fan says "Reading is FAN-tastic!"

There are 40 different sized fish and ocean graphics in this set that contain no writing on them in this set.

Matching Teaching Resources:
Fish Book Reports Set

Below you will see an example of my Dive Into Reading Book Reports that are shaped using these same fish templates.

These unique fish book reports match the fish sticker charts that are found on this page and are a great combination of resources to use together to promote reading in your classroom.

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Fish Book Reports Set

Matching Teaching Resource:
Dive Into Learning the 8 Parts of Speech
Bulletin Board Resource Set

Below you will see an example of my Dive Into Learning the 8 Parts of Speech. These parts of speech fish match the fish sticker charts that are found on this page and are a great combination of resources to use together in your classroom.

This set of language arts resources covers the following 8 parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunction, interjections, and prepositions.

Below you will see examples of the verbs fish.

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Fish Bulletin Board Set

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