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CHALLENGING WORDS

fashion feel flat found furry heels hundreds sales clerk tired wearing

SUMMARY

Mrs. Grindy needs a new pair of shoes. She looks for a longtime. But she decides her old shoes are the best. --- Conversation Questions---

(1) Share what this story is about. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Explain what your favorite part is.

(2) Guess why Mrs. Grindy needs new shoes. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Describe what your old shoes look like.

(3) Imagine why Mrs. Grindy thinks her feet would get cold in the shoes on page 16. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Name some times you would wear sandals.

(4) Reminisce about a time you bought new shoes. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Estimate how long it would take you to shop for new shoes.

(5) Define the word fashion. (Answer) Something that is popular or in style. (Follow Up) Use the word fashion in a sentence.

(6) Look for what Mrs. Grindy needed. (Answer) Some new shoes. (Follow Up) Recall what the sales clerk said to her.

(7) Find what color the first pair of shoes was. (Answer) Red. (Follow Up) Name your favorite color.

(8) Search for what kind of shoes the clerk said she needed for cold feet. (Answer) Furry boots. (Follow Up) List different kinds of shoes.

(9) Hunt for what kinds of shoes the sales clerk brought her on pages 10 and 11. (Answer) High heels and lows heels. (Follow Up) Recite what Mrs. Grindy said about these shoes.

(10) Explain what kind of shoes she ended up getting. (Answer) Her old shoes she had on to begin with. (Follow Up) Describe how the sales clerk reacted to this. Activities

1. Draw and label different pairs of shoes.

2. List all the different kinds of shoes the clerk showed Mrs. Grindy.

3. Write three sentences describing what happened in the story.

4. Write your own ending to the story.

Introductions

1. Bring in a pair of old shoes and new shoes. Ask the child which one they would rather wear? In today’s story Mrs. Grindy needs new shoes. Let’s see what she finds.

2. Use the title as a puzzle and let the child unscramble the words. Ask the child what their favorite shoes look like? Now let’s see what kind of shoes Mrs. Grindy wants.

Book Title: Mrs. Grindy’s Shoes Author: Joy Cowley Illustrator: Val Biro ISBN: 0-7802-4975-5 # of Text Pages: 11 AR: 1.0 LEX: N/A Building Oral Vocabulary 2 salesclerk 6 fashion 8 furry Prediction Questions 5 What kind of shoes do you think she will show her next? 9 Predict what will happen next? 15 If you are the sales clerk what might you say? This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.