Pocket Dogs - Book Study

Experience “The Pocket Dogs” through reading and writing printables that will make your students think about connections, author’s purpose and complications within a narrative. This is a print and go book companion for ‘The Pocket Dogs”.

• Look at the cover and predict what the story is about
• Read part of the story and make a prediction and then add what actually happened using the INB or the Making Predictions page
• Word wall to add vocab – this helps in reading and writing tasks
• Word Sorting for nouns, proper nouns, verbs and adverbs
• Vocabulary Detective task
• Descriptions – traits task for Biff, Buff and Mr Pockets
• Beginning, middle and end
• Planning template for a narrative that will help to scaffold writing your own version
• Write your own blurb – two versions
• Write a visual representation in a small booklet
• Venn Diagrams to compare Biff and Buff
• Sequence task with text from the book
• Cause – Effect – Complication –Resolution task. Use this as a whole grade our small group to sort the parts of the story
• Problems and Solutions – you record the solutions. There are two versions to choose from
• Emotions and connections to our own
• I see, I think, I wonder
• Three facts about the story
• Record 3 facts, 2 opinions, 1 question
• Plus, minus and interesting parts of the story
• Text to self, text and world
• Main idea and sub points
• What does the author do to keep us reading?
• Interview questions you would ask
• Design a new cover
• Conversation between characters
• What is the author trying to say?
• Write a sequel
• Write a different ending
• Change the characters or the ending
• Book report
• Craft task

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