Adventuresome Dogs

For a few days, our readings took on a dog theme, because what young person doesn't like man's best friend? Here are two of my favorites.


Martha Blah Blah, Susan Meddaugh
Martha is an extraordinary dog who can talk after she eats alphabet soup. But when the soup company starts eliminating letters from the soup, Martha’s speech gets all garbled. I found a fun letter recognition activity to go along with this book in Games with Books, by Peggy Kaye. The text is a bit harder than most of the other books I’ve been using, so I would suggest reading this out loud and letting the student follow along with an alphabet puzzle, removing the letters as they get taken out of the soup.


Joey and Jet, James Yang
This book is good for beginning readers to try on their own because the vocabulary is manageable, yet they tackle prepositions (around, beneath) that aren’t usually found in early reading books. The art looks like fabric collage, and Jet has a lot of energy, which results in him running all over the place chasing a stick (a dog’s work is never done).

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