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The Golden Turtle and Other Tales: Band 16/Sapphire


Collins Big Cat

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No. of pages 56

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Great for age 6-11 years

Three folk tales from around the world retold by the wonderful storyteller Gervase Phinn. In the first, a golden turtle offers a kindly fisherman riches beyond his wildest dreams. In the secod, Amparo's daughter looks sweet, but when she's determined to do something nothing gets in her way. In the third, a naughty leprechaun gets a big shock!

* Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

* A `wanted' poster on pages 54 and 55 for the leprechaun in the last story helps children to recap all the naughty things he did.

* Text type: Three stories from other cultures.

* This book is paired with The Ultimate World Quiz, a non-fiction information book full of facts about our planet.

* Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Citizenship: Choices, Living in a diverse world.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

 

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by HarperCollins Publishers .

By Gervase Phinn, Illustrated by Linda Selby, Tomislav Zlatic and Sholto Walker Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.

This book is in the following series:

Collins Big Cat
The Collins Big Cat series is a fully structured reading scheme with both fiction and non fiction titles. The series was designed to build speaking and listening as well as reading skills. Every book contains a unique reader response activity plus reading tips including suggested comprehension activities and curriculum links.

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