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I Want a Dog: My Opinion Essay
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $25.99
ISBN13: 9781629440125
Publisher: Mims House
Published: Dec 30 2014
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Dennis wants a dog. A BIG dog. There's just one problem: first, he has to write an essay about it.
Dennis and his cousin Mellie both want a dog, and they have very different ideas. Dennis wants a giant. Mellie wants tiny. Dennis wants a couch potato to watch TV with; Mellie wants a jogger. Mellie is too busy with dance and piano for a dog that needs grooming every day, and Dennis just wants a dog who will stay by his side.
Then his teacher, Mrs. Shirky, assigns an opinion essay: What is the best kind of dog for your family? And she says Dennis must use criteria. (Cry-tear-EE-uh. It makes him think of crying tears.) Criteria, it turns out, just means reasons.
So Dennis does what good writers do. He thinks before he writes. Big or little? How much exercise? Easy to train? A guard dog? Lots of grooming? Page by page, readers meet more than 20 popular dog breeds, from the Chihuahua to the Great Dane, as Dennis weighs each one against his reasons. Then he writes his essay, and kids get to read the finished opinion essay that earned an A. But will it convince Mom and Dad?
A Mentor Text for Opinion WritingI WANT A DOG turns a favorite kid topic, getting a pet, into a model of the essay-writing process. It is a perfect mentor text for opinion writing and persuasive writing in grades 2 through 5, in the classroom or as a homeschool language arts supplement.
Kids learn how to write an essay without even noticing they are learning, because they are too busy rooting for Dennis to get his dog.
Book 1 of The Read and Write SeriesEach book models a different kind of essay through a story kids love:
More Language Arts Books from Mims HouseSeven books that help teachers and homeschool families teach essays, letters, and the parts of speech. Scan the QR code in the back of the book to see the full Language Arts collection at MimsHouseBooks.com.
About the AuthorChildren's book author and indie publisher DARCY PATTISON has written over seventy-five fiction and nonfiction award-winning books for children. Five books have received starred PW, Kirkus, or BCCB reviews. Awards include the Irma Black Honor award, six NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, six Eureka! Nonfiction Honor book (CA Reading Assn.), three Best STEM Book, two Junior Library Guild selections, two CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts, two Notable Social Studies Trade Book, a Green Earth Book Award Long List, an Arkansiana Award, and the Susannah DeBlack Arkansas Children's History Book award. She's the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children's literature. Her books have been translated into eleven languages.
About the IllustratorEwa O'Neill (pronounced Ĕ-vah) is a dog lover whose luscious, colorful collage art gives every breed its own personality, helping kids tell dog breeds apart.
Grab I WANT A DOG today, and watch your young writers fall in love with essays.
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