Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics

Sam the big, bad cat isn t feeling well. Tom wants to take him to the vet. Sam doesn t want to go, and finds a variety of hiding places to escape. Tom pursues him, getting more and more bedraggled in the process. Finally Tom goes to bed, leaving Sam who is feeling much better to enjoy a snack.

Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers varied sentence structure and natural language.

Text type - A story with a familiar setting.

A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 reveals all of Sam s hiding places in a pictorial summary of the day, providing the opportunity to recap the story....

The red balloon flies up, up and away Follow the balloon's journey over the captivating landscape of the rooftops, river, mountains and the sea in this simple non-fiction recount.

Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.

Text type - A simple non-fction recount.

The flow chart on pages 14 and 15 allows children to discuss and recap the balloon's journey.

This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery."

All teachers recognize how crucial the acquisition of good reading skills is. This book will help teachers understand how pupils learn and help them to meet those pupils' different needs through appropriate intervention.

The book includes: clear explanations of different learning difficulties; guidelines on types of assessment; advice on how to select the best type of intervention and support.

Some wheels are big and some wheels are small. This exciting book is full of photos of all kinds of wheels: big and small, fat and thin, fast and slow, from skateboards to tractors, that children are sure to be curious about.

Pink B/ Band 1B books offer simple, predictable texts with familiar objects and actions.

Text type - A simple non-fiction text.

A simple pictoral summary with captions on pages 14 and 15 provides an oppportunity to recap and discuss the information in the book.

This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery"

Rebecca went to the funfair with mum and dad. She didn t like the hall of mirrors, and the rollercoaster made her turn green but when she won lots of prizes on a stall, she decided that she liked it after all The funny illustrations show Rebecca s gradual change of opinion, and include lots of details for early readers to talk about.

Yellow (Band 3) books offer varied sentence structure and natural langauge. This book is told in rhyme.

Text type - A story with a familiar setting.

A map of the fair is included on pages 14 and 15 which can be used to check comprehension.

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A humorous story featuring two whacky scientists building a robot. They assemble the robot carefully with each body part, but where is the head? In this simple text, each body part is named as it is added, and as the different parts are used, a repeated reply of thank you reinforces the phrase.

Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.

Text type - A patterned story with predictable structure

The body parts are repeated in a single labelled diagram of the completed robot on pages 14 and 15 providing opportunities for...

Tec the detective has found a hole in the ground but who dug it? Children follow Tec as he trails his suspects, until he finds the vital clue that leads him to the guilty party

Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.

Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language.

Tec s investigation involves many suspects, all of whom can be seen and discussed in a character line-up on pages 14 and 15.

Tec and the Hole is one of three stories by Tony Mitton about Tec the detective.

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'There are sounds all around you Which sounds do you like?' This is a simple non-fiction book about the wide variety of sounds we head and how they are made. The text is illustrated with lively photographs of children listening, and making noise

Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with
sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.

Text type - An information book.

A pictorial index is included on pages 14 and 15, giving the children a chance to recap and discuss the text.

Curriculum links - Science: ourselves, sound and hearing.

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A wordless picture book about a birthday party. The photographs provide a window on all the preparations, the birthday tea, the guests arriving at the party, the gifts and the games. Come and join the fun

Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that gives information through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how information books work.

Text type - Non-Fiction.

Pages 14 and 14 recap the different stages of the party and preparations in a sequenced flow chart providing opportunities for further writing and speaking and listening activities.

This non-fiction book...

Where do you see stripes around you? This non-fiction picture book looks at all sorts of stripes. Do you see them on a zebra s fur, or as shadows on the pavement, or on a bright, woolly jumper? Alongside each photograph is a close-up snapshot that magnifies the various textiles and materials in detail.

Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that gives information through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how information books work.

Text type - Non-Fiction

A simple pictoral summary at the end of the book provides an oppportunity to recap and discuss the information...

The photographs and text in this non-fiction picture book combine to give an account of a child getting ready to go out skateboarding. The book presents a glimpse of what makes this exhilarating activity so popular.

-Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.

- Text type - Non-fiction recount.

-The photographs are repeated in a pictorial summary of the book on pages 14 and 15 so children can retell the event in their own words.

This simple picture book with a familiar theme, looks at the different thigns that a family take on a picnic; the rug, the basket, the sandwiches, the cakes and the drinks. The scene is set for a perfect picnic, until the wasps arrive

- Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.

- Text type - A story with a predictable structure and patterned language

- A labelled illustration on pages 14 and 15 gives children the chance to recount and discuss the story.

- This story is paired with an information book with a similar...