Grandpa's New Scooter

Grandpa’s New Scooter is a realistic and humorous fiction story about Dana and her dad visiting grandpa. Grandpa was feeling unhappy about being old and sore so he decided to buy a scooter. Grandpa told Dana the scooter was too slow so he decided to make some changes, and eventually Dana and grandpa went racing through the park on his new space-age scooter. The story is narrated from the girls’ perspective with dialogue between characters, thought bubbles, visual list, and speech bubbles.

Grandpa’s New Scooter is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the speech bubbles, illustrated thought bubbles, layout, and design. There is an infographic at the end of the book outlining the parts of a narrative including the who, where, when, problem, and solution. An activity on drawing their own visual map of a narrative is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as singular/plural (battery/batteries), homonyms (by/buy), synonyms (happy/glad), antonyms (sitting/standing), and similes. Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Grandpa’s) and apostrophes within contractions (let’s). Focus on long and short vowel i and discuss suffix ly (tightly), base words (groceries), prefix un (unhappy), and silent letters (bright).

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Guided reading: K

DRA: 20

Grade: 2