Present a small group of students with the book and ask them to give each picture a title. Also get them to answer the following questions about the text: What do you notice about the way this text looks? In what ways is this text like others you have read? In what ways is this text different from the last one we read?

Read the book to the students a few times. Give them the pieces off the front page (the picture, the title, the author. Get them to stick them onto their own 'front page' in their books. Do this the same with the back page, the title page and one or two middle pages.

Get students to look through the book and without reading the words 'read' the story out to everyone.

Read the book once. Write a list of questions that you have about the book. Include word definitions, moral of the story, character motivation, story line possibilities...

Have a group discussion and ask, “What is the moral of the story?”, “What attitude did the Rainbow Fish have? What is the book telling us about that attitude?”.

Write a story from the perspective of the little fish that gets rejected at the start. How was he feeling, how would the story have changed if the little fish never asked the Rainbow Fish again?

Get students to look through the book and without reading the words 'read' the story out to everyone.

Go through the book and get the children to see what words are on nearly every page (The Rainbow Fish, or fish).

Get the children to identify how many sentences there are on each page and also how you know when people are talking (quotation marks).