While many students are reluctant to return to school after
a too short summer break, most still love back-to-school shopping. Kids have
fun choosing new backpacks, pencils, and notebooks. In Shopping
Trip Trouble, seven-year-old Sofia
Martinez goes school shopping with her two older sisters, Mamá, Tía Carmen, and
her four cousins—Hector, Alonzo, Manuel, and baby Mariela. Everyone is excited
to pick school supplies in their favorite colors. But when Sofia notices that four-year-old
Manuel is missing, chaos ensues as the family races around the store searching to
find him.
Read Shopping Trip
Trouble out loud to your students and have fun discussing their own
shopping trip adventures.
Suggested questions:
Were there too many choices of colors and sizes? Not enough?
Did you have trouble choosing?
What are your favorite back-to-school items? Are there any
you do not like?
Did you accidentally knock something over like Hector and
Alonzo?
Did the family stay together? Or did a child wander off?
Have you ever heard an announcement over the loudspeaker
calling for a lost child?
Is it more fun to go shopping in a large group?
Or would you
rather shop with one person?
What other elements of Shopping
Trip Trouble mirrored your own shopping experience?
Use the discussion to help young writers remember and record
details for their own writing. Afterwards, ask your students to do one or more of
the following:
1.
Write a personal narrative of a family shopping trip.
2.
Create a fictional story in which a child was lost and
found in a store.
3.
Write a poem about a specific school supply. (ie:
pencil, notebook, backpack, ruler)
4.
Write a diary entry from the viewpoint of a school
supply (ie: crayons, markers, notebook) waiting to be chosen by a shopping
student.
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