Pet Perspectives

Pet Perspectives is a debate about various pet issues including whether rats should be kept as pets, whether pets should be returnable, and whether every family needs a pet. The book also discusses text connections, planning a debate, and features of a debate.

The text is presented as a collection of first-person persuasive essays.  A variety of sentence types is used.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as questioning, predicting, inferring, and summarizing.

The text uses persuasive language.

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