Focus on Literature Ages 5 – 8

This is the perfect companion to help you accelerate literacy standards in your classroom. It contains eight units of work. Each unit provides a scaffold for the reading of a popular children’s picture book.

Every unit includes:
? literary techniques and grammar
? ideas for display
? developing prior knowledge
? enriching the reading experience
? connecting to other Learning Areas
? taking it further
? 8 photocopiable worksheets.

Also included is a theme and topic index, so that you can connect and integrate the children’s books across the curriculum.

Contents:
How to get the most out of Focus on Literature
Literature in the classroom
Teaching the units of work
Theme and topic index
BLM 1 – Merit Certificates
Where is the Green Sheep? By Mem Fox
Grandpa and Thomas by Pamela Allen
Dimity Dumpty by Bob Graham
Eight by Lyn Lee
Mutt Dog! By Stephen Michael King
Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo by Alison Lester
Uno’s Garden by Graeme Base
Tashi and the Stolen Bus by Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg