A New Ice-Cream Machine

A New Ice-Cream Machine is a humorous, fictional text about a favourite ice cream shop that is going out of business because the owner’s ice cream machine breaks down. The children decide to run a flea market and collect all the clothes, toys, and games they can find. Parents soon realize that the children took their clothing from home and have to pay money to get their clothing back. The children give the money from the flea market to the ice cream shop owner and he is able to buy a new machine.

Illustrations support interpretation and enhance enjoyment in this narrative text. Illustrative text is used. Speech bubbles appear.

Some sentences begin with dependent clauses and many adjectives appear in the text. Simple connectives such as and connect two ideas. To conclude, the signs that the ice cream owner puts outside of his store are shown. In addition, simple activities that include oral, written, and visual communication are presented in the Teacher’s Guide Notes.

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