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Student Writing
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.
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by Bessie Bleeker, age 10

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.

It was a regular day for everyone in New York when all of a sudden the ground rumbled for about 3 seconds then everything was normal but then it happened again and a gigantic cat with sleek shinning fur and glittering yellow eyes. Most anyone would have thought it was cute except for the fact it was giant and going to destroy New York …
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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!

THE END
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We just completed our Photoshop workshop, and wanted to share the self-portraits created by our three blooming artists. We hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed creating them.
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by Havel Weidner, 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.

  1. Pinch Ground Nuts.
  2. Pinch Ground Flower. Mix With Tooth Pick
  3. Pinch Bird Seed. Let It Dry!
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by Colette Aru, 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.

My fishes are fat and so is my cat and that’s the way I like them and I love them very very much. I have a fish, fish, fish and one cat and I mentioned that she is fat. My downstairs neighbors have a hamster he is smart his nails are sharp so he bites his name is Scwertel my cats name is Kooskia and my fish are Shark, Hair Brush, and Hair Clip.
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by Annakai Geshlider, age 7

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.

Far far away there is a land where me, Comet the cat, will one day rule. I will have lots and lots of scrumptious bugs to eat, and I will be famous. The far off land that I will one day rule, well … I will get to name it. It will be called Catzotown. All the cats there will love that name.
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