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Rosie, A Visiting Dogs Story By Stephanie
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Purpose inform persuade entertain
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• Rosie, A Visiting Dogs Story
• Focus Skills
• To use strategies to decode multisyllabic words
• To read and understand a personal narrative
  nonfiction selection
• To create, divide and use compound words
• Genre
• Personal Narrative- tells a true story about
  something important to the author
• Summary
• Rosie is a Tibetan terrier whose friendly nature
  makes her a perfect visiting dog. She brings
  comfort to people in nursing homes and hospitals.
• Reading Strategy
• Use Context to Confirm Meaning
• When reading nonfiction, readers will often come
  across new, unfamiliar words. One of the easiest
  ways to figure out a words meaning is to use
  context clues. A good reader will use the
  meanings of other words in the sentence to help
  figure out whether the decoded word makes sense.
  Does the word look right, sound right and make
  sense in the sentence.

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• Story Questions
• How is Rosie like other dogs? How is she
  different?
• What character traits did Rosie have as a puppy
  that showed she was not ready to be a visiting
  dog?
• What character traits did Puppy Rosie have that
  made her owner think she would be a good visiting
  dog someday?

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• Fill in the chart to show what Rosie learned in
  each setting.
• What does the author mean when she says that
  Rosie has good sense?
• a. Rosie could smell things very well.
• b. Rosie learned how to read in school.
• c. Rosie understood how people were feeling and
  knew how to act in different places with
  different people.

Setting
What Rosie Learned
Puppy Kindergarten
Home
ASPCA
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• 7. What kind of tests did Rosie get at the end of
  her training?
• How did the people Rosie visited feel after the
  visit and how do you know?
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Alexander
Nina
Bill
Rosie
Peter
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• Think and Respond Questions
• What makes Rosie a good visiting dog?
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• What do the captions under the pictures on page
  262 tell you?
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• Why is it important for Rosie not to approach
  someone until the person is comfortable with her?
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• What might people learn from Rosie about being a
  good friend?
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