Also, here is my activity guide.
Summary
A little boy
wants a pet dog and goes to the nearby animal shelter to adopt a pit bull. His mother doesn’t approve, but the little
boy’s stubbornness prevails and they adopt a pit bull named Tilly. Tilly later on saves the boy from a
potentially horrible situation on a walk one night. This story shows how one boy and dog bond to
become each other’s best friend.
Illustrations/Images
What were
your reactions to the illustrations?
What kind of gaps does the illustrator leave for the reader to fill
in? How does the story flow from page to
page? Can you read the story just from
the images?
Finding Details
How does the
story flow from page to page? Is the
text or images placed in such a way that engages the reader to keep going?
Image Analysis
Choose one
image to analyze and answer the questions below.
·
What
colors dominate the image?
·
How
is the image framed? Why do you think
this way?
·
Do
the characters directly look at the reader?
·
Look
at the size and scale. Does this make an
impact in the story?
Building Vocabulary
What level
reader do you think this book was written?
Find three words in the story that you do now know and look up their
definition in a dictionary.
Extending the Text
·
Why
do you think the author dedicated this story to an actual pit bull named Tilly
at the end of the story?
·
Research
various animal shelters to find their goals, missions, history, and what it
takes to help animals in need. Write a
report that summarizes the animal shelter to include its goals and
functions.
Topic Study
Read The Stray Dog by Marc Simont
Read Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence by Lisa
and Michael Cohn
Compare and
contrast the main character dogs in all three books. How are they alike? How are they different? How did each child find their new pet dogs? What kinds of activities did each child and
dog do together? What do you think you
could say about each dog and family?
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