Publisher: Learning Media Series: Dragonflies
Author: Emma Cranston Illustrated by:
Format: Paperback Pages:
Text type: Fiction
Book Band: Yellow Level: 6-8
ISBN:
Theme/Topic: Family, Financial Literacy, Food
Strategy/Skills:
– making inferences;
– using prior knowledge;
– making predictions;
– determining the author’s purpose.
Description:
This story Let’s Go to the Market looks at how money is a limited resource that can be used to purchase goods. A girl and her father go to an outdoor market to shop for fresh produce. They have a limited amount of money to spend. They make several purchases, but find that the tomatoes they want are too expensive. At the end, they realise they do have enough money left to buy strawberries.
