A Book Talk: Dirt On My Shirt

This hilarious collection of poems tells the story of the different people that live the narrator's neighborhood. The illustrations are light hearted, whimsical, and take you on a journey through the narrator's neighborhood the reader will meet unique characters such as Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed, and Aunt Foo Foo.

This would be a great book to introduce students to poetry because it is so much fun to read. I would use this book in a third grade classroom to assess students on their fluency. Fluency is something that a teacher needs to assess and sometimes it can be boring to students, but if you used interesting books such as this one the students would have much more fun reading for fluency
Book title: Dirt on My Shirt
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Illustrator: Steve Bjorkman
Genre: Poetry
Number of pages: 32
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Standard Used: 21.B) Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.3.4b]