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FAMILY DINNER

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Home-Grown Story Created By

Mary Murphy

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Theme: Food/Family

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in support of the

Adult ELL Pathway to Literacy Program

Indianapolis, IN

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Level A

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Using This Story

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  • These stories were created as open educational resources to use with adult English language learners who have limited-literacy skills.
  • We encourage using the stories first without words, to introduce and develop students’ oral language before showing them the text.
  • Comic Sans font is used in the stories because it closely resembles handwriting.
  • The story is meant to be a resource, not a stand-alone curriculum.
  • The Yes/No and Wh- question slides are not meant to be shown to the students.

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All photos courtesy of Mary Murphy

@2023. This work is licensed under a CC BY NC 4.0 license by the Pathway to Literacy Program, under the direction of the Immigrant Welcome Center, in Indianapolis, IN. All images in this story, unless otherwise attributed, are from Public Domain or free stock photo images sources, such as Unsplash, Pikist, Pixabay, Pexels, FreePik, Pics4Learning.

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Family Dinner

(no text)

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The End

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Yes / No Questions

  1. It is morning.
  2. The family eats soup.
  3. The family has one daughter.
  4. The family has two sons.
  5. The family eats a little soup.

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Family Dinner

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It is time to eat.

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The family eats.

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The mother and father eat.

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The daughters eat.

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The sons eat.

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They eat all the soup.

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The End

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Wh- Questions

  1. What time is it?
  2. Who eats?
  3. How many sons are in the family?
  4. How many daughters are in the family?
  5. What does the family eat?

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Numbered Sentences

  1. It is time to eat.
  2. The family eats.
  3. The mother and father eat.
  4. The daughters eat.
  5. The sons eat.
  6. They eat all the soup.