Fiction Readers: Mia's Chocolate Challenge

Mia’s Chocolate Challenge is a humorous and realistic fiction story about Mia and her father going to the baking shop to find a chocolate horse mold for Ben’s birthday. Before going to Ben’s, Mia showed the horse her chocolate mold, but it broke in the process! Mia tried to use the sun’s heat to warm the chocolate and fix it. When Ben opened the gift, he loved the chocolate turtle! The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrations. 

Mia’s Chocolate Challenge is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the symbols on boxes, layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss the procedures Mia followed while baking a chocolate horse. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as singular/plural (horse/horses). Focus on suffixes and base words (grinned). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Ben’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Mia), exclamation marks, question marks, commas, and quotation marks.

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.