by Phoebe Boosalis, age 8

Literacy experts say reading aloud to one’s pet is a great way to become a more confident reader. It’s also really, really fun. In the Writing for Your Pet workshop, we teach students that cats and dogs have no interest in the sports pages. They want stories written just for them. As expected, our students are more than ready to meet the challenge. For the next week and a half, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite stories from the most recent session.

In a little town in New York there lived a rat named Mr. Rat. He was an old rat who likes to take over the world! He does not listen to his mother! And so one day he took Mrs. Rat and said hello Mrs. Rat with a smile. How are you doing? But she did not answer! I think that she is dead!

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