Throughout the story, Zoomer is always doing something elaborate. Each page has a different description of what trouble he is getting in to such as “blowing the world’s biggest bubble!” Students can close their eyes and imagine what that giant bubble would look like. We can continue to do this throughout the rest of the story with each thing that Zoomer does: building a Brontosaurus out of sand, drawing the universe, sailing a pirate ship, and doing magic tricks.

Read the first 6 pages to the class. Before turning on to the next page, have students predict:

Why won’t Zoomer share his bubble bath? What world record do you think he is going for? Read the next page together to find out and confirm predictions.

The story opens with the pups playing ball in their room. Cooper opens with “Wake up, Dad!” “You’re missing the game!” Model to students how our enthusiasm and inflections can grab the reader’s attention and make them more interested in the story.

On pg. 7, Zoomer is playing his instrument for his dad with text to model the sound that it makes: “OOMPAAAAA!!!” Reading with students, we can emphasize this noise and talk about how it is written to make us change our voice.

In the next sentence, Dad says, “Well, it certainly is LOUD!” When reading emphasize this word and discuss with students how the word in all capital letters means that we put more feeling in to it when we read it. Model and reread with students.

On pg. 7, Dad “took a photograph to document Zoomer’s accomplishment.” Question students on what they think it means for us to “document” something? What are some things that we document in our classroom? At home?

On pg 9, dad is trying to “coax” Zoomer to get ready for school. What do you think is another good word to describe what it means to coax someone? Discuss with students sometime that they may have had to coax someone.