This week’s shared reading: Any Kind of Dog.

This a story that many students (and parents!) may be able to relate to. A little boy desperately wants a dog! His mother repeatedly tells him that dogs are too much trouble and she gives him many other interesting types of pets. No pet will satisfy the boy however and eventually the mother gets him a dog. Guess what? He discovers that his mother was right…dogs are a lot of trouble! It is worth it however to the little boy!

Some skills we will be working on as we enjoy the story are the use of present and past tense verbs. This is difficult for many first graders! We will also be working on describing characters in a story. Students will get their own chance to describe “characters” as they write about favorite pets! This story also gives us a great opportunity to discuss the responsibility of taking care of an animal and making good choices!

Here are some words you can practice at home:

Kind

Any

Nice

Trouble

Gave

Animals

These are words presently on our word wall:

and, big, can, first, grade, has, I, like, my, not, play, school, the, for, me, you, look, at, did, find, found, is, am, come, go, here, on, all, down, get, what, will, do, help, it, this, but, of, over, run, they, back, don’t, my, see, was, are, came, good, way, went, again, out, rain, up, when, jump, put, said, with, your, know, make, old, other, thing, could, have, saw, want, who, about, now, ride

This week we will be adding the following words:

stop, that, eat, give, little