Use Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how -ch and -th digraphs are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Last Stop on Market Street highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Last Stop on Market Street. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.
