Mi perro y yo 6-pack Author: Margaret Mahy ISBN: 9780790328874 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: G Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Overview

In this poetic text, perfect for reading aloud, a young girl and her dog greet the morning with joy and enthusiasm.  Alliterative, lively verbs bounce the text along and provide many opportunities for exploring language.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of:

• making connections with real-life experiences
• identifying the main ideas

It’s also useful for monitoring the students’ decoding skills.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the poetic text features – alliteration, repetition, the multiple verbs on pages 13 and 14
• the poetic phrases – eyes wide open, into the morning sunshine, into the new day
• the first-person narrator
• the use of the present tense
• the buildup of excitement and expectation
• the humor and vitality in the illustrations
• the relationship between the girl and the dog
• the structure of the text with the girl’s actions mirrored by the dog’s
• the lively verbs
• the variety of verb forms – barks, barking; bounces, bouncing; scratches, scratching; stretches, stretching; wags, wagging; wave, waves, waving
• the use of commas to support phrasing
• the variety of initial consonant blends
• the -sh digraph – shoes, sunshine, T-shirt
• the -es ending – scratches, stretches, watches

For more information please see our Lesson Plan