Students read How Dogs Really Work! by Alan Snow. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of dogs as pets. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.

Students examine the dangers of owning and breeding aggressive dogs. They debate whether aggressive dogs should be kept as pets. They write an essay from their point of view about aggressive dogs as pets.

Dogs and logs don't necessarily have a lot of do with one another, except for how they are spelled! Practice with these two -og words by putting together and playing with these cards. Kids match the images and the letters to spell dog...

How do you make a prediction? Practice active reading comprehension strategies, like making predictions, with your readers. Learners make predictions during the independent reading of Dogs Don't Tell Jokes by Louis Sacher. They observe...

Did you know dogs had an important job on September 11th, the day airplanes took down the World Trade Center? Learn more about the furry heroes with a three-page informational read designed to aid pupils in answering 10...

Looking for a bell-ringer activity to get your grammar class started? Pass out this half-sheet on National Hot Dog Month! Budding grammarians will search for the capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors included. 

Find the least common multiple of hotdog packages and bun packages in an interactive that allows pupils to drag and drop a set of four hot dogs into a pack of six buns to find the least common multiple of the sets.

In this long vowel worksheet, learners complete the short story "The Man and the Dog" by filling in the five blanks from the vocabulary words found in the word bank on the worksheet. Students then put the four pictures in chronological...

In this editing learning exercise, students read a short paragraph on "Hot Dogs!" and find the 10 errors in the paragraph dealing with capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

In need of some algebraic fun with real world implications?Learners use ordered pairs, a table of values and a scatter plot to evaluate the validity of several real world data sets. The class focuses on  dog ages in human...

After reviewing a comic of a dog and his bone, learners draw their own pictures on the top and write what they think happens next in the story. This activity is a good transition into longer story writing, as well as a good practice in...

Students explore English by reading a classic story in class. In this story vocabulary instructional activity, students read the book Clifford the Big Red Dog and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the certain...

Learners use countries and dogs from around the world to answer the questions.

Who says you need a human to be your valentine on Valentine's Day? Give your dog-loving readers an inspiring perspective on how a sister givdes her brother a valentine from the family dog. They then answer 10 questions thatd involve...

In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the sled dogs who inspired the Iditarod. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

Students role-play a story about a cat and dog, follow the assembly instructions to piece together finger puppets, and complete letter-writing practice.

Students learn about and identify feelings of happiness, sadness and disappointment. In this feelings lesson plan, students have a show and tell time about their pets and discuss how it would feel if they lost their pet. Students watch a...

Teach your young pups some new tricks with this math facts activity. Using a deck of cards and the included game board, pairs of young mathematicians draw cards and attempt to make products that are larger than their partners'...

Students explore dog dos and don'ts. In this personal safety lesson plan, students discover methods to use when meeting new dogs. Students role play the provided scenarios and complete worksheets on the topic.

Read, copy, write, and draw; these are the four to dos when your early readers get hold of this activity. First, scholars read a short story about a child and her grandmother's dog. Readers then practice copying and writing...

Students calculate the perimeter and area of polygons. For this geometry lesson, students apply formulas of perimeter to solve geometric problems. They calculate the area of a dog fence and create ways to keep the dog in that area.

Students investigate the parts of a book by reading a story about a dog.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students utilize their memory to place pictures from the book Harry the Dirty Dog in order from start to finish....

Match and read, what could be more fun? Learners read a story and identify pronouns in the text. They read the text again and correctly match pronouns to nouns on a worksheet. Great introductory activity.

Students run a computer simulation. They collect data as they work and use the data to create an annual report for their business. Several different simulations could be used for this project. It is desirable for students to do this...