Fiction Readers: It's Good Enough to Eat

It’s Good Enough to Eat is a realistic and humorous fiction story about a group of children using fresh fruits and vegetables to make their lunch plates look like animals! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, onomatopoeia, and illustrative text. 

It’s Good Enough to Eat is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story as well as the illustrative text. Discuss the onomatopoeia in the story with regards to the bolded letters and font style.

Readers develop vocabulary such as rhyming words (lunch/munch), verbs (eat), and adjectives (sharp). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (it’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Anna), quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks, and commas. Focus on suffix y (tasty).

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.