Dog, Cat, Mouse & Co.: With the animal stories in this volume, your students can independently train their reading and writing skills. Are your students lacking motivation to read and write? Here, the goal is to convey the joy associated with these activities. The theme of animals serves as the perfect means to engage students and encourage practice. In this volume, you will find twenty didactically valuable photocopiable templates from the animal world that you can provide to your children as working materials for independent study. The tasks are varied and allow your students to independently practice both their reading and writing skills. They will practice reading comprehension through exciting short stories, jokes, and poems, while also writing with the help of images.