The Toy Store
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What's Inside
I love to go to the toy store. What kind of toys do you like?
Read this short book one on one with a child and talk about the joy of visiting a toy store. The pages give children practice with rereading, reading smoothly, and using clues from the sentence to fix mistakes. It also supports figuring out new words by looking at word parts and reading in a way that makes sense. A good read-aloud choice for early readers who are building confidence. Try reading it a few times and invite your child to notice how the reading sounds smoother each time.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn The Toy Store into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Rereading for accuracy
- Reading with fluency
- Self-correcting while reading
- Using sentence meaning and word parts
- Reading with expression
- Decoding unfamiliar words
Discussion Questions
- 1 When we hear, "I love to go to the toy store," what do you think the child in the book feels about that place?
- 2 What kinds of toys do you like to talk about or look for when you go to a toy store?
- 3 The book says to read it over and over again. How does rereading help you get faster and smoother?
- 4 If a word does not make sense while you are reading, what could you do to fix it and keep the meaning of the sentence?
- 5 What do you do when you come to a word you do not know but can tell from the other sounds in the word?
- 6 How can you tell when someone is reading fluently with expression?
Words to Learn
- toy store
- A toy store is a shop where people go to look at and buy toys.
- fluency
- Fluency means reading smoothly, with good speed and expression.
- reread
- To reread means to read a book again.
- self-correct
- To self-correct means to notice a mistake and fix it while reading.
- meaning
- Meaning is what the words and sentences are telling us.
- expression
- Expression means reading with feeling in your voice.
- decode
- To decode means to figure out a word by looking at its letters and parts.
- rime
- A rime is the ending part of a word that can help you read other words with the same ending.
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