Book Summary
Do you think animals are capable of love? The author of this book does. She also believes that animals can feel and demonstrate loyalty, friendship, tenderness, and compassion. As evidence of this, she presents several different examples of real-life animals and how they show emotion. When you finish reading, will you agree or disagree with the author's point of view?

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summaring to understand text
• Analyze author's purpose in the text
• Identify and use compound sentences
• Understand the meaning of compound words

Materials

• Book -- Animals Feel Emotions (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Summarize, compound sentences, compound words 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: abandon, amputated, compassion, devotion, ecstatically, eventually, evidence, instincts, loyalty, malignant, passive, rambunctious