Love that Dog by Sharon Creech

I loved this book! It is a great read aloud book. Love that Dog is a collection of poetry done by a student in Mrs.Stretchberry's class who does not consider himself a poet. He writes in his notebook all about his process of writing and reading poetry. As the reader you can tell that he does not consider this writing to be poetry but as the reader it is easy to see that it is, in fact, poetry. This book is a good example to remind or inform us that poetry doesn’t have to rhyme or be set up in a certain way. Poetry can look any way or sound any way the writer would like. The reason that it would make a great read aloud book is because it would give the class an understanding of what poetry is and what it does not have to be.