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It is Shopping Time
Komar Rien Komar Cheh
Credits & Licence
Originally published by The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read.
Brought to you by Let’s Read is a program of The Asia Foundation that supports early reading skills and habits to develop our next generation of critical thinkers and creative innovators in Asia and the Pacific. To read more books like this and get further information about this book, visit: letsreadasia.org. 10 Original Story It is Shopping Time. Author: Komar Rien Komar Cheh. Illustrator: Be Chharya. Published by The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read, © The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read. Released under CC-BY-4.0. This work is a modified version of the original story. © The Asia Foundation, 2018. Some rights reserved. Released under CC-BY-4.0. For full terms of use and attribution, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Contributing translators: Somey Chheang
author: Komar Rien Komar Cheh. illustrator: Be Chharya. translator: Somey Chheang. publisher: The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on Let’s Read: It is Shopping Time (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Read the repeated sentences aloud together, pausing to count each quantity. Invite the child to point out the matching items in the pictures without needing to add extra plot.
- Themes
- Getting ready for school: Sophy buys books and other supplies before the school year begins, and the ending presents her as ready. The story presents preparation as a cheerful, uncomplicated activity through Sophy's expressions and the closing reassurance that she is ready.
- Counting quantities: The sentences list decreasing quantities of books, pens and chalk as Sophy shops. The repeated count-and-item pattern supports noticing quantities, though the story does not explain any broader maths idea.
- Worth knowing
- The story treats school shopping as cheerful and straightforward. It does not show prices, budgeting or whether every pupil can obtain the same supplies.