Book Summary
Dogs At Work introduces students to the many ways that dogs are trained to help people. It explains a wide variety of canine jobs (sixteen total), some of which are quite unusual. Illustrations support the text.  

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand nonfiction text
• Identify main idea and details
• Identify pronouns
• Recognize and use suffixes -ed and -ing

Materials

• Book -- Dogs at Work (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Main idea/details, pronouns, suffixes worksheets

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

Vocabulary

• Content words: deaf, therapy, guide, assistance, elevator, physically disabled, roaming, sheared, livestock, dangerous, caught, collapsed, rubble, termite, humid, chemicals, captured, threatening, arson, gasoline, Newfoundlands, collies, illegal, baggage, seizure, epilepsy, disease, retriever, aquatic