by Grant Singer, 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.

Once there was a cat that was an actor in a movie. His name was Tom. He liked to watch fish. He loved fish and once he met one! The movie he was in was called The Case of the Missing Cat Food. And it was a novel written by Michael J. Cat. So he was a stunt cat in it who went high in an airplane and the airplane started on fire. So he got his water bottle and put it out but the problem was the plane couldn’t fly any farther so in 5 seconds he taught every one how to sky dive. So Tom the hero saved 75 people! The director was a fish named Quicksilver. Quicksilver liked it so Tom got $100 dollars!

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