Summary
Stuart J. Murphy's picture book follows the Elm Street Kids' Club as they track lemonade sales on a bar graph. LeVar Burton explores how graphs help us read, compare, and use data in real decisions — a great math+ELA crossover.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
The Elm Street Kids' Club graphs their lemonade sales to track how their business is doing.
- What does the bar graph show? What does each bar represent?
- On which day did they sell the most lemonade? How do you know from the graph?
- What problem threatened their lemonade business, and how did they solve it?
- What else could you track with a bar graph in your own class?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: bar graph, data, category, compare, tally.
Try it: Take a class tally of a favorite item (color, animal, food). Draw a bar graph from the results and write one sentence describing what the graph shows.