Children's Literature Theme Plan

Man's Best Friend:  DOGS

DOGS have been described as man's best friend.  Dogs have been helping humans for several years.

Let's read and explore  the interaction of dogs and humans and what various roles  dogs have played to be known as man's best friend.

Grades: 3-4-5

Objectives:  Identify famous dogs in the past 100-200 years and  lists what  qualities made them famous.

Identify  what qualities  a dog needs to be considered a HELPFUL dog

Define:  WILD dogs  and DOMESTIC DOGs and their qualities

Some resource books:   Five True Dog stories  by Margaret Davidson
Bo, the Famous Retriever by Lynn Simmons

Morris and Buddy the Story of the FIrst Seeing Eye Dog by Becky Hall

The True story of Balto written by Natalie Standford