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Experience “The Pocket Dogs” through reading and writing printables that 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 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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