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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

Education > reading

Family > family life

Science > nutrition > foods

Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > independence

Standard: Read With Understanding

Component of Performance	How activity addresses component
Determine the reading purpose	Adults want to function independently, especially when doing their grocery shopping.






Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose	Students are learning the alphabet and sounds of the letters by developing a list of grocery words.






Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies	When students actually buy the groceries from their list, they are verifying their word knowledge.






Analyze information and reflect on its underlying meaning	Students must draw conclusions about environmental print when they match labels and sentences.






Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose	As their word bank grows, students use these grocery word lists to make family shopping lists for each week.

Purposeful, Transparent, 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
OLRC
(330) 6720753
jfranks@literacy.kent.edu