Harry the Dirty Dog

Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will LOVE Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion! Maybe they can relate to Harry, because he hates to take baths! This book paired with these corresponding companion activities will help students dive deep into the book, and will help them practice essential literacy and reading comprehension skills.

HARRY THE DIRTY DOG BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Harry hated taking baths so much, that when he heard the water running for his next bath he buried his scrubbing brush in the backyard and ran away from home!

The story goes on to detail places that Harry visits in the story. Of course, every place Harry visits turns this white dog into a black dog because he gets dirtier and dirtier as the story goes on.

After some time, Harry became tired and hungry. He missed his home. So he headed back there, but there was a problem! His family did not recognize him! Instead of being a white dog with black spots, Harry was now a black dog with white spots. Harry tried to convince the family that it was really him. He did every trick he knew, but the family did not believe it could be him.

Finally Harry ran to the garden and dug up his scrub brush. He dashed upstairs and hopped into the bathtub. The family soon discovered that it was Harry after all!

This Harry the Dirty Dog book study unit is packed with reading activities that will help your students with story elements, character traits, making text to self connections, giving opinions and advice, author's purpose, story sequencing, main idea, making inferences, making predictions, vocabulary words, story retell, writing, reading comprehension, and much more!

The activities can be used for whole class learning, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This Harry the Dirty Dog book activities unit is packed with guided reading activities for Kindergarten and First Grade. There are so many options that it is easy to differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

This book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

HARRY THE DIRTY DOG CRAFT

As a fun wrap up to reading Harry the Dirty Dog, students can write and draw a story retell or about their favorite part of the story with this craftivity! The craft makes a cute bulletin board display, to showcase student learning.