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Cool Dog, School Dog (2009)

by Deborah Heiligman(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0761455612 (ISBN13: 9780761455615)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Two Lions

review 1: Cool Dog, School Dog is a good back to school book or a good introduction to the program Reading with Rover. I picked this book up at our school's Scholastic Book Fair. It is a cute story about a dog that doesn't want to get left behind when her human brother goes off to elementary school so she tags along! Tinka, the dog, gets into all sorts of trouble and gets a call home until the children start reading to her. She loves it! Then she is a "come back every day dog". Children will love the rhymes in this book as Tinka makes her way throughout the school. I didn't particularly like how the dog's name doesn't roll off the end of your tongue, but otherwise this is a cute story to read aloud to a younger classroom.
review 2: Cool Dog, School Dog was exactly the ty... morepe of book I would've wanted in my elementary reading experience. Cool Dog, School Dog is a book about a boy and a dog and their ever so close relationship. Tinka and his owner, a young boy, are as close as friends could ever be. But the young boy goes to school in the fall, and Tinka is left home alone with the boy's mother. Sneaky Tinka slips out the door one afternoon and heads for the school where he runs the halls and knocks everything over, making a huge mess in the school and classroom. Tinka makes the teacher mad and she phones home to the boy's mother. In a last minute twist of fate, the students plead to their teacher to let Tinka stay and read with them. Turns out, Tinka loves to read and listen to books, and she inspires the kids to read more and more!This book has an audience of pre-k through 2nd grade. This book would appeal to them because of the cartoon characters, the up and moving spirit of the book, and the rhythmic reading of the book's text. I also think this book would appeal to this age because it combines two things that most students enjoy, dogs and school. At this young of an age, they will love the idea of bringing a dog into the school. My idea of implementing this book revolves around struggling or developing readers. My idea would be to read this book if I had 1 or 2 students who struggled to read and stay attentive while reading. After reading this book to the class, I would introduce our own Tinka to the classroom. Tinka would be a stuffed dog that would travel home with students to read or would sit in the classroom and could be held during reading time. This stuffed animal would act as a motivator to students who didn't enjoy reading and my hope is that Tinka will get them to pick up a book and become lifelong readers. less

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