Fiction Readers: Splash Down!

Splash Down! is a realistic fiction story about sibling playing in a pool and splashing the water. The water is almost gone from splashing it out, but they grab the hose and fill it back up again! The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrations.

Splash Down! is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story.

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (splash) and adjectives (hot). Focus on suffixes and base words (jumped). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Ella), quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.