Supermarket Sweep Day 1

Students will talk about choices that families make when purchasing groceries. Students will make a booklet of frequently purchased grocery items.

A lesson plan for grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies

By Angela Hunt and Melody Holmes

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Angela teaches ESL and Melody teaches Spanish at Mocksville Elementary School. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to send them to our emails!

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Learning outcomes

Students will:

• learn about choices and preferences made when purchasing items.
• learn which choices are more popular.
• listen and raise hand to signify foods purchased by their families.
• place a food item in a shopping cart upon hearing the name when read.
• write/draw their choices in a booklet.
• read booklet to class.

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

40 minutes

Materials/resources

• American Money (bills and coins)
• Overhead projector OR dry-erase board
• Plastic food and/or pictures of food
• The Supermarket by Gail Saunders-Smith or another picture book of a supermarket
• Pre-made 6 page booklets (see attachment)
• Shopping cart / Shopping basket

Technology resources

None

Pre-activities

None

Activities

1. Start lesson by showing American money to children. “What are some ways you all use money?” — Students respond (ex. video games, clothes, skateboards, FOOD!!)
2. “Great, today we’re going to talk about things our families buy in a supermarket/grocery store.” Show pictures of various foods and ask children to raise their hand if they would like to say what it is.
3. “Let’s read a book that has some foods that we’ve seen already today.” Direct children to listen as you read The Supermarket (or other suggested book that addresses the topic) and raise their hand if they hear a food that their family buys regularly at the supermarket.
4. Pass out plastic food or food pictures (1-2 per student).
5. Re-read the story to students and tell students to listen as you read for the food/s that they were given. When they hear the name of their food, student should place the picture or plastic food in the shopping cart/basket.
6. Provide students with pre-made booklets (At the supermarket) and direct them to write/copy the phrase “My family buys…” from the board onto the top of each page. They will draw a picture on each page to illustrate what they buy and attempt to write the name of that food in the blank.
7. Have students present their books to the class.
8. After presentations, discuss with students which items were popular/bought more often with families. Write down the most popular and least popular on the board.

Assessment

• Visually check that students raise their hands for foods bought with their families.
• Visually check to see that each student places his/her food item in the shopping cart when they hear it being read.
• Make sure that booklets contain 5 food items that are relevant.
• Listen for correct names of foods and pronunciation as they present booklets.

Supplemental information

Please be sure to include foods that are common with non-English speakers in your classroom. (Example: Hispanic families often purchase cilantro, papayas, mangoes, chayotes, etc.) We have attached a sheet labeled Hispanic food pics.

Supermarket. By Kathleen Krull and Melanie Hope Greenberg

The Supermarket. By Gail Saunders-Smith. This book provides vivid pictures of foods in a supermarket setting.

The booklet that students are to make can be found at the attachments below labeled Shopping cart and Shopping cart page 2. The first one is the coverpage and the second one is an example that you can use for the last five pages. We have written in parentheses what should go in each blank. Be sure to delete the phrases in parentheses before passing them out to students.
Shopping Cart and Shopping Cart Page 2.

Related websites

U.S. Department of Agriculture This site provides colorful pictures of fruits and vegetables.

Internet Picture Dictionary This site provides pictures of fruits with words
underneath.

Pics4Learning This site provides various pictures of foods.

Discovery Channel School This site provides various pictures of food.

Amazon.com This site provides a lot of books about supermarkets.

Modifications

1. Allow ESL student to work with a partner when they make their booklet.
2. When ESL student presents booklet, have entire class read sentence (My family buys..) and allow student to state the food only.
3. Make sure to note which food the ESL student/s is given and make eye contact with them and nod so that they know to put their food in the shopping cart/basket.

Alternative assessments

In the booklet, check only for 5 food drawings and not necessarily the written word.

Check that ESL student remembers the name of 3 out of 5 foods when presenting booklet.

Critical vocabulary

buy, supermarket, grocery store, all the foods that are used, shopping cart

Comments

This plan was developed during the English Language Development Standard Course of Study lesson planning institutes hosted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and LEARN NC, June and July, 2004. It includes specific strategies, instructional modifications, and alternative assessments which make this lesson accessible to limited English proficient students. Please note that this lesson has been aligned with the goals and objectives of the N.C. English Language Development standards.