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Reading with Art: Landseer’s “Portrait of a Terrier”

Use this PDF to add art to your literacy lessons, supporting your students’ reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension. Find ideas about how to use these cards here.

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Work of Art
Edwin Landseer, Portrait of a Terrier, The Property of Owen Williams, ESQ., M.P. (Jocko with a Hedgehog), 1828

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The Stray Dog by Marc Simont

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