On the first weekend of May, two things are certain: A new Marvel Studios movie will hit theaters, and Free Comic Book Day will be happening at comics stores around North America. For example, one activity has young readers practice story sequencing and has them retelling the story.Free Comic Book Day at Bedrock City Comic Co. I also appreciated the end-of-the-book activities. And being simple does not in any way prevent it from being clever and funny and A STORY. I love it because it is simple and straightforward. Little Dog is lonely, too.' The illustrations tell the rest of the story! My favorite part, I must admit: 'Big Dog gets in the big bed. Here is how this one begins, 'Big dog and Little Dog are hungry. There are PLENTY of other books to get them excited-to keep them excited and to keep them READING. The good news is that if little ones LOVE reading about Big Dog and Little Dog, this is the first in a series. In this early reader title, young readers meet Big Dog and Little Dog. The end-of-the-book activities are brand new additions to the 2015 edition.) (The book was originally published in 1997. It is newly published in early reader format.

I definitely enjoyed reading Dav Pilkey's Big Dog and Little Dog. And in his trademark way Pilkey throws in a funny twist at the end. As well there is a Word Scramble and a Fill-in-the-Blank.Īs far as the story it's a classic. In addition there are pictures which are out of sequence and kids are challenged to put them in the right order. There's a maze that will take the dogs to the skunk as well as Fun Facts which adults can read and share. There are 6 pages of intelligent and fun things for youngsters to do. This is a really nice book and one of the features that is nice about it are the activities at the end. *you can find reading info on the other Pilkey books here. The book has only 73 words and bright saturated colors. The Lexile number for this book is AD50L and the Accelerated Reader number is 0.8. These BIG/LITTLE DOG books though are at the Kindergarten reading level. BIG DOG & LITTLE DOG is a cute series from Dav Pilkey - well known for his other series, Captain Underpants, Dumb Bunnies, Dragon, Ricky Ricotta.

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