Gran's Hearing Aids

Gran’s Hearing Aids is a realistic and humorous fiction story about a grandma mixing up what people are saying because she needs hearing aids. After getting hearing aids, Gran becomes grumpy because everything is too loud…until her grandchildren steal the hearing aids! The story is narrated with dialogue, speech bubbles, and onomatopoeia to describe the sounds Gran hears.

Gran’s Hearing Aids is a simple narrative. 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 illustrative text, information, layout, and design of thank-you notes.The story ends with an infographic outlining how thank-you notes can look different. There is an example of a thank-you email and a thank-you card.

Readers develop vocabulary such singular/plural (face/faces) and homonyms (here/hear). Opportunities arise to focus on the apostrophes to show possession (Gran’s). Focus on long and short vowel o and look at suffixes and based words (humming).

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