Love That Dog Novel Study and Poetry Unit

This literature resource for Love That Dog by Sharon Creech is a low prep novel study and includes both reading comprehension activities as well as creative poetry writing activities related to the figures of speech used in the story. The other great feature of this book is the famous poems that are integrated throughout the story.

This is the perfect supplement to a poetry unit of study and really gets kids motivated to write poems and use figures of speech-- just like Jack (the main character in the story). Students tap into many inference skills to understand the events that are happening off the pages of the book.

Product Includes:

CCSS (4th grade)

Vocabulary List

Reading Comprehension Questions

Character Chart

"Miss Stretchberry Says" Inference and Point of View Activity

Write 3 poems using the same everyday object (modeled after Jack's blue car poems)

Compare/Contrast Jack's poems to the original published poems

Onomatopoeia

Shape Poems with adjectives

Foreshadowing and Quote Analysis

Similes

Poetry Definition persuasive response

Repetition

"Inspired By" Poem Activity and analysis of famous poets' styles

**Teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples included**

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