Officer Buckle and Gloria

Title: Officer Buckle and Gloria

Author: Peggy Rathmann

Readability: Grade level Equivalent: 2.5, Lexile Measure: 510L

Genre: Comedy and Humor

Theme: Jobs, Careers and Work, Cooperation and Teamwork, Safety, Elementary School

Characters: Officer Buckle, Gloria (dog)

Awards: Caldecott Honor Book

Published: 1995

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

ISBN: 0-399-22616-8

Summary: Officer Buckle is a safety officer for Napville School.  He comes to demonstrate safety tips and the students fall asleep.  Officer Buckle brings in a dog (Gloria) for the demonstrations and the students begin paying attention, and staying awake.  Officer Buckle soon realizes that the students are more interested in the dog than himself.  He decides to quit demonstrating, and the school soon realizes that they cannot let that happen.

 

Classroom:  This story can be used for Kindergarten students when teaching school rules.  The students could come up with their own classroom rules after reading this story.  They can determine the importance of classroom rules.