Steve Lumb – illustratör

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 is paired with a story on a similar theme; Oh Dear Me I’m Late for Tea by Alison Hawes.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

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 book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelThe brightly coloured photographs in this picture book show common minibeasts that most children will be familiar with. Photographs alongside the minibeasts show children grouped and made up to resemble the insect featured.This is a Band 01A/Pink A book in the Collins Big Cat reading programme which offers emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. This is a simple information book with smaller versions of all the photographs repeated on pages 14 and 15 so children can retell the information in their own words. This non-fiction book is paired with a story on the same theme: The Picnic (9780007185399) written by Monica Hughes and Gustavo Mazili. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

A bright, action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. The step-by-step instructions include sequential words at the start of each sentence: First, Next, Then, Now and Stop. Photographs of children dancing support and clearly demonstrate the actions referred to in the text. Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.Text tye – An instruction text.The summary on pages 14 and 15 allows children to discuss and recap the instructions.Curriculum links – Music: feel the pulse, exploring rhythm; PE: dance activities.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery