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Use Love That Dog by Sharon Creech to strengthen your students comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Written as a collection of poems and journal entries, Love That Dog tells the change-of-heart story of Jack, a boy who grows to appreciate writing poetry in school after he encounters the right inspiration. This is an excellent book for supporting different reading levels because early readers will connect to the setting and emotions, and fluent readers will be challenged by the unique text structure.

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Making Connections with Love That Dog

Love That Dog can support readers of all levels who are practicing making connections. Beginner readers can draw upon their experiences and opinions about pet ownership and school assignments to make text-to-self connections. Fluent readers can connect to their experience with poetry, and they'll be challenged by the unique text structure of this book.

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Making Inferences with Love That Dog

The classroom setting in Love That Dog allows students to make strong text-to-self connections, which make this book and lesson plan a smart choice for practicing making inferences. Readers will apply their own experiences to make inferences about how the main character is feeling and thinking about his poetry assignments. High-ability readers will also be challenged to infer meaning using poetry-style writing.

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Synthesizing with Love That Dog

With the author's use of simple language throughout this book, Love That Dog makes a good anchor text for a lesson on synthesizing. Students can focus on the strategies they're applying as well as their evolving opinions and understanding of the characters and events in this story.

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Understanding Text Structure with Love That Dog

This is the perfect book and lesson plan for teaching students how to fully comprehend diverse text structures. Love That Dog incorporates poetry and journaling in the form of notebook entries across a school year to tell the story of Jack and his new-found appreciation for writing poetry. Readers will need to engage with several different types of poetry presented in a narrative journal to uncover this highly relatable story.

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Visualizing with Love That Dog

This book and lesson plan work well to support readers as they visualize to improve their reading comprehension. The setting is familiar to students, and the text is full of descriptive language that supports imagery of the physical and emotional qualities of each character.

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Comprehension Assessment with Love That Dog

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Love That Dog.

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Running Record with Love That Dog

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Love That Dog. 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.

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Making Connections with Love That Dog (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Love That Dog (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Love That Dog (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Love That Dog (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Love That Dog (Spanish)

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About the Book

Title: Love That Dog

Author: Sharon Creech

Genre: Poetry

Themes: Self Management, Self Awareness, Family

ISBN: 9780439569866

Publisher's Summary:

Jack is a young student who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, and he surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. Written in a series of blank verse poems in journal format. Includes some of the famous poems which Jack's teacher uses to inspire her class.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Love That Dog