Last Stop on Market Street Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the read-aloud book Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña.

With 35 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, sequence story events, compare & contrast, identify problems & solutions, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

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• Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.

• Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.

• Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.

• Recalling events in Chronological Order: Students describe and illustrate four major events in the story in chronological order.

• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

• Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.

• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• Problem & Solution: Students will answer questions related to the problem & solution in the story.

• Figuring Out Figurative Language: Students will read the text taken from the story to identify what two things are being compared and explain the meaning of each example. (ANSWER KEY included).

• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• Visualizing: Students read the text from the story, draw a picture of what they visualized, and explain what the author is trying to communicate (ANSWER KEY included).

• Character Traits: Students choose the most important character traits that describe each of the characters and give one to two examples from the story that support the traits they chose.

• Character Inside & Out (CJ): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• Character Inside & Out (Nana): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• Character Feelings (CJ): Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• Character Feelings (Nana): Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• Character Development (CJ): Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they chose.

• Character Change (CJ): Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.

• Setting Influences the Plot: Students will draw a scene from the story that takes place in one of the settings and write about what happened there and why it was important to the plot.

• Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know the setting changed.

• Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then, answer the questions about the author's message.

• Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.

• 3-2-1: Students will list the three things that CJ complained about, describe two of the passengers that were on the bus with CJ and Nana, and come up with one word that describes Nana and explain why.

• Before & After: Students will describe and illustrate how CJ felt about his outing with Nana before she showed him how to notice the beauty all around him and what he felt like after.

• Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• Thinking Beyond the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• CJ & Nana’s Bus Ride: Students will draw and label a map of the bus route CJ and Nana took and describe three things that happened on their bus ride.

• Sunday Afternoon: Students will recall CJ and Nana’s Sunday afternoon by drawing illustrations with captions to describe each event and including information from the story.

• Making a Difference: Students will write a paragraph explaining how Nana and CJ are making a difference in their community by volunteering at the soup kitchen every Sunday after church and draw an illustration to go with their writing.

• What are Your Thoughts: Students respond with opinions to thought-provoking open-ended questions regarding the story.

• Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle: Students use the definitions and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY included).

• Book Review: Students will rate and review the book.

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare the books Last Stop on Market Street and Something Beautiful.

• Community Project Flyer: Students will create a flyer for a community service project that will persuade others to help or improve something in their community.

• Discovering Beauty Using the Five Senses: Students will describe what “beauty” looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells like.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.