About this Resource
Did you know that you can meet the poetry expectations in ELAL 4 with a single read aloud: Love that Dog by Sharon Creech!
This resource offers some suggestions for how you might do this, with opportunities to extend to KUSPs from Comprehension, Oral Language, Vocabulary, and Writing OIs.
After reading several ‘entries’ (free verse poems as journal entries written by the main character, Jack) pause to have class discussions, invite students to write reader response journal entries, or experiment with writing their own poetry based on the classics that Jack explores with his teacher.
