My Best Shoes

CHALLENGING WORDS

barefoot
buckle
knot
polished
prance
scuffed
sparkling
tangle
tiptoe
twinkling

SUMMARY

The story tells about the different shoes you might wear on various days of the week.
--- Conversation Questions---
(1) /

Recall the shoes in the story.

(Answer) / Tie shoes, tap shoes, play shoes, old shoes, new shoes, sun shoes.
(Follow Up) / Recall which shoes were your favorite.
(2) / Estimate how many shoes you have.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Guess how many shoes your mom has.
(3) / Imagine something you like to do and what kind of shoes you wear.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Suppose you were playing dress up. What kind of shoes would you wear?
(4) / Compare old shoes and new shoes.
(Answer) / New shoes are clean, shiny and bright. Old shoes are dirty, and scuffed.
(Follow Up) / What are tap shoes?
(5) / Explain the word tiptoe.
(Answer) / To walk on your toes.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever walked on your tiptoes?
(6) / Name what happened when the girl did not tie her shoes on Monday.
(Answer) / She fell.
(Follow Up) / Do you know how to tie your shoes?
(7) / Name the shoes she wore to dance class.
(Answer) / Tap shoes.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever worn dance shoes?
(8) / List things you can do in play shoes.
(Answer) / Race, run, skip, hop, jump, and stop.
(Follow Up) / Describe your play shoes.
(9) / List what your old shoes look like.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / List a place you wear your old shoes.
(10) / List places you wear sun shoes.
(Answer) / Sand, water, grass, land.
(Follow Up) / What do you call it when you wear no shoes?
Activities
1. / Write about your favorite shoes. What color are they? When did you get them? Where do you wear them?
2. / Write about something you like to do in bare feet.
Trace your shoe or foot.
3. / List all the different shoes you can think of in three minutes.
4. / Draw a picture of your favorite pair of shoes.
Introductions
1. / Have a shoe on the desk. Ask students if they have a favorite pair of shoes. When would they wear that shoe? Say let’s read about different shoes and when to wear them.
2. / Have a shoe in the bag. Ask students to feel and guess what type of shoe it is. Say let’s read about some different shoes.
3. / Have a foot traced on paper. Say today let’s read about bare feet and different types of shoes you might wear.

Book: My Best Shoes

Author: Marilee Robin Burton / Illustrator: James E./ Ransome
ISBN: 0-688-11756-2 / # of Text Pages: 22 Book Level:
Building Oral Vocabulary
1 / tie / 10 / shoes / 13 / new
Prediction Questions
2 / What will happen if she doesn’t tie her shoes?
10 / Where will she wear old shoes?
16 / Where did she wear sun shoes?

This resource is made available by KYREADS-Barren County School system, an AmeriCorps program, funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community and Volunteer Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.