After their notes are complete, ask each student to talk with a partner about the characters. Teachers may also use these statements as writing prompts, asking students to write one paragraph using evidence from the book and a second paragraph with evidence from personal experience. Caring for an animal is a step toward caring for people. Animals are morally superior to human beings. If you want to understand a person's character, observe the way he or she behaves around an animal.
People behave in neurotic and unbalanced ways with their pets.
2.Many ABE programs encourage students to write their own stories and books and tales and even publish them through small presses. These very short stories may serve as models of the kinds of stories our students are capable of writing. However, it is often very difficult for students, as well as teachers, to see how to revise a piece of creative writing and to pinpoint which elements are the ones that move a story from mediocre to very well told. After the teacher and student together examine the Rylant stories for these elements, students may want to apply the same creative writing lessons to their own stories. Or if your students would like to continue to read more by Rylant, you may want to look at her picture book An Angel for Solomon Singer with them as a class and analyze the similarities between the theme of the picture book and the theme of several of the stories in Every Living Thing.