The Pocket Dogs

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

Tasks include -
Before you read tasks
Look at the cover and predict what the story is about
Read part of the story and make a prediction and then add what happened using the INB or the Making Predictions page
Word wall to add vocabulary – 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, and 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

Discover the adorable world of pocket dogs in this heartwarming picture storybook!

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