Readers will certainly ask questions before, during, and after their read of Harry the Dirty Dog. This lesson plan supports students in wondering about the plot and characters, and offers opportunities to think of questions that they could ask Harry and his family if they were given the chance.

The simple text, illustrations, and storyline of Harry the Dirty Dog provides space for students to infer about the emotions behind numerous, unfamiliar characters, as well as our protagonist, Harry. Harry's family, who plays a critical role in the story, is also relatively unfamiliar to the reader. This gives young students a chance to practice inferring what Harry's family may be feeling or thinking regarding his return home.

While there are many opportunities to predict what will happen next as Harry runs away from home, the ending to this story offers the best opportunity for practicing this foundational comprehension skill. Harry the Dirty Dog leaves the reader with questions in the final page of the book, giving young students a chance to predict what Harry will do the next time he is faced with a bath.

Harry the Dirty Dog offers a text structure that supports key components of this comprehension strategy- retelling and summarizing. Harry dashes off to a series of locations, where he finds himself getting dirtier and dirtier. This story line lends itself to discussing cause and effect as well as characters, settings, and events.

Gene Zion's use of cause and effect, sequencing, problem and solution, and compare and contrast in Harry the Dirty Dog allows readers to practice identifying and discussing these foundational elements of text structure. This light, fun read is an ideal selection for teaching and reinforcing this key comprehension skill.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion n as a springboard for instruction focused on verbs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how verbs ending in -ed are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with verbs.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Harry the Dirty Dog highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Harry the Dirty Dog.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Harry the Dirty Dog. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read Harry the Dirty Dog then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Harry the Dirty Dog. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Harry the Dirty Dog includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.