My Dog Level A
Text Type: Fiction/Narrative • Word Count: 33

MORE LEVEL A
LEVELED READERS
My Dog
Bird Goes Home
Fruit
My Room
He Runs
Baby Animals
In and Out
My Hair
I Can
Going Places
My Face
My Body
Getting Dressed
Maria Goes to School
Maria Counts Pumpkins
We Can Make Sounds
Hot and Cold
What Lives Here?
What I Like
Spring Weather
Up and Down
Mom and I
Pond Animals
Opposites
All Kinds of Faces

WORKSHEETS FOR
MY DOG
Worksheets
U.K. Worksheets

LEVEL A
BENCHMARK BOOKS
Vegetables
I Go

OTHER PRINT OPTIONS
RAZ Pocketbook
Wordless Book

Book Summary
The spirited little dog in this book can run, jump, climb, roll over, and even hug the boy who loves him. The text introduces students to verbs and uses repeated sentence patterns with high-frequency words to support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Connect to prior knowledge to understand new information
• Main idea and details
• Orally discriminate initial sounds
• Associate the letter Dd with the sound /d/
• Understand that some words describe actions
• Categorize content words on a Venn diagram

Materials

• Book -- My Dog (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea and details, verbs worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: my, can
• Content words: jump, run, swim, dig, climb, sit, over, roll, hug