A hungry man and his wife baked a small bun. But as soon as they put it on their plate, the bun jumped up and ran off. This lively version of the traditional story of the gingerbread man is by Martin Waddell.
Blue / Band 4 - A
Text type - Fiction
The focus phoneme in this book is al (small).
Use the storymap on the final spread to discuss the route the small bun took and the characters he met..
Martin Waddell also wrote Red 2b The Mouse and the Monster; Yellow 3 Horse Up a Tree
This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery."
A hungry man and his wife baked a small bun. But as soon as they put it on their plate, the bun jumped up and ran off. This lively version of the t...
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Pink/1A - a simple story with a familiar setting
Text type - Fiction
The focus phonemes in this book are s, a, t, i, p, n, m, d
A picture of the seabed on pages 14-15 shows all the crabs and their hiding places to help children recap the story"
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Sid is sad because his dad is in a pit, but he comes up with a cunning plan to get him out and play a trick on the man that put him there at the same ...
