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Planning with a quality text:
Comprehension:
Provide illustrations and get kids to create
text/captions.
Reading:
Read the text out loud in a ‘black dog’
voice.
Find another article/text about
depression.
Talking and listening:
What would you say to someone who
had a black dog.
Writing:
Respond to
Why the author chose a Black Dog ?
Write a letter to the black dog explaining
why you don’t want him around
anymore.
Insert Book
Author
iPad apps:
Pic Collage- collect images related to
the Black Dog and then create an
alternative on the white dog.
Making:
Design your own black dog, how
would you portray him?
Eg. Hair cut, cloud, shadow etc.
What can you think of?
Other:
What would the story of White Dog be
like?
Vocabulary:
List of words describing the black dog
Build a list of adjectives about a black
dog.
Build a list of verbs about a black dog.

2. Andrea Hillbrick 2013