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Making a Grocery List

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Standard Read With Understanding

Outcomes Students are decoding a growing number of words specific to grocery shopping.


 
Classroom Information
GED Descriptors
     Language Arts Reading
Roles
     Family, Community Member
Program Type(s)
     ABE, GED, ESOL, Family Literacy, Urban, Rural
NRS Learner Levels (ABE/GED)
      1
Time Frame
     2.0 to 3.0 hours
Technology Integration
Alphabetics
Word Sort Teaching Strategy

Keywords
select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Education > reading
bullet Family > family life
bullet Science > nutrition > foods
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > independence

Purposeful, Transparent, Contextual, Building Expertise
Purposeful and Transparent
Being able to write a grocery list and then shop for those items is an imminent goal for struggling readers.

Contextual
By using grocery list words as teaching materials, students have real-life words that can be used immediately to their benefit.

Building Expertise
Students will continue to build their knowledge base by adding new words to their grocery list word bank and extend their word lists into other topics of interest.


Lesson Designer
Judy Franks
Ohio Literacy Resource Center
(330) 6720753
jfranks@literacy.kent.edu


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