  | Love that dog Author: Creech, Sharon | |
| Price: $16.79 | ||
Summary:
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
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| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 4.50 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 52616 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 6-8 Reading Level: 4.90 Points: 4.0 Quiz: 25962 | |
Common Core Standards
CC Maps Recommended Works Gde K-5
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 4 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 4.RF Phonics & Word Recognition
Grade 4 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 4.RF Fluency
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 3 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 3.RF Fluency
Grade 5 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 5.RF Fluency
Grade 6 → Reading → RL Literature → 6.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 6 → Reading → CCR College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards fo
Grade 5 → Reading → RL Literature → 5.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (07/01/01)
School Library Journal (+) (08/01)
Booklist (08/01/01)
The Hornbook (11/01)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 08/01/2001 In simple free verse, Jack tells his teacher that he cares nothing about poetry and sees no point in that snowy woods stuff: Why doesn't the person just / keep going if he's got / so many miles to go before he sleeps?. But despite himself, he's enraptured by what his teacher is reading: the beat of Tiger, tiger burning bright just won't go away. At the same time, he's writing poetry in his own voice about himself, culminating in a breathtaking poem about what happened to his beloved dog. At the end, Creech overdoes Jack's fawning adoration of author Walter Dean Myers, who comes to school at Jack's behest, but that won't stop kids from recognizing both Jack's new exuberance and his earlier uptight mood. Best of all, the story shows how poetry inspires reading and writing with everyday words that make personal music. This is a book for teachers to read aloud and talk about with kids. Some of the poems Jack's teacher reads are appended, including Myers' wonderful Love That Boy. - Copyright 2001 Booklist.
