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Literacy Teaching in the Early Years - Term 3
The texts suggested here can be read with groups, individuals or used with the whole class as part of a literacy hour. See resources and planning for ideas related to these texts.
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Robot Word Folder Unit

Robot Word Folder Unit
A fun way to teach early sight words. This unit allows you to make attractive Robot Word Folders. Also included are sight word cards and onset and rime word lists for spelling. Contains, Robot Folder, Spelling Machine and Words and Word Lists for both. (1.1mb Download) Single User PC Version.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Reception: Week 6 Plan: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Three Billy Goats Gruff E book Single User (PC)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff traditional tale, presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector, with colourful illustrations and the option to edit your own text and save and load text. (5mb Download) Single User PC Version
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Three Billy Goats Gruff E book with speech Single User (PC)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff traditional tale, presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector, with colourful illustrations and sound on the speaking parts. (9.6mb Download) Single User PC Version
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Three Billy Goats Gruff Goat Facts Single User (PC)
This non chronological report is presented as an electronic book, for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer or multimedia projector. (7.9mb Download) Single User PC Version
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Text: Dear Zoo
Reception Week 1 Plan: Dear Zoo

This delightful book, with its simple patterned text, provides an excellent model for involving children in making their own 
version of a lift-the-flap book.

Author / Illustrator: Rod Campbell
Puffin Books
ISBN: 0-333-90371-4 (Big book version)

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Text: Dinosaur Roar
Reception Week 2 Plan: Dinosaur Roar
Lots of hungry dinosaurs in this beautifully illustrated book. The rhyming text creates a good opportunity to reinforce
rhyming work and generating new rhyming words.
Author: Henrietta Stickland
Illustrator: Paul Stickland
Puffin Books - ISBN: 0-582-36287-3 -Big Book

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Text: Jasper's Beanstalk
Reception Week 3 Plan: Jasper's Beanstalk
Jasper's Beanstalk
Jasper found his bean on Monday, planted it on Tuesday and on Wednesday he watered it. But despite all his attention he
was surprised that it hadn't grown by the following Monday!

By Nick Butterworth & Mick Inkpen
Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 0-340-77917-9

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Text: Each Peach Pear Plum
Reception Week 4 Plan: Each Peach Pear Plum
The rhyming text and storybook characters make this an all time favourite from the Ahlbergs.

By Janet and Allan Alhberg
Picture Puffin
ISBN: 0-582-436567

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Text: Grandad Pot
Reception Week 5 Plan: Grandad Pot
Grandad Pot

Polly is going to Grandad Pot's for tea, but how many of her friends are coming? Grandad is kept busy making lots of things for everyone to eat.

By Siobhan Dodds
Walker Books
ISBN: 0-7445-3631-6

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Text: The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Reception Week 6 Plan: The Tiger Who Came to Tea
This book, now available as a big book, has delighted children for over thirty years! When Sophie's family is eaten out of house and home by the tiger they have to go to a cafÈ for their tea.
By Judith Kerr
Collins
ISBN: 0-00-301514-9

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Postcard Competition
Reception Week 7 Plan: Postcard Competition

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All the resources required for this week's plan can be obtained free from this site or from the internet. You may find these books useful as additional resources:
Discovering the USA - ISBN 1-874488-25-8
Postcards from USA - ISBN 1-874488-81-9
What I Like
Reception Week 8 Plan: What I Like
This appealing book has a rhyming text, which highlights the likes, dislikes, loves and hates of six children.

Authors: Catherine and Laurence Anholt
ISBN: 0-7445-6070-5
Published by Walker Books

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The Big Sneeze
Reception Week 9 Plan: The Big Sneeze
The Big Sneeze

This beautifully illustrated book catalogues the devastation caused by a lazy fly and a farmer's sneeze!

By Ruth Brown
Publisher: Oliver & Boyd
ISBN: 0-05-004391-9

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Polar Bear Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Reception Week 10 Plan: Polar Bear Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Similar to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see; this book makes a good model for writing a class book. It is available in big book format.

Author: Bill Martin Jr.
Illustrator: Eric Carle
ISBN: 0-582-36288-1

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Farmer Duck
Reception Week 11 Plan: Farmer Duck
Poor duck had the bad luck to live on a farm with a lazy farmer. He was left to do all the work - that is until the other animals decided to take action! This delightful book is a past winner of the Smarties Book Prize and was the British Book Awards Children's Illustrated Book of the Year.

Author: Martin Waddell
Illustrator: Helen Oxenbury
Walker Books
ISBN: 0-7445-4779-2

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Reception Week 12 Plan: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This classic and much loved book provides the ideal text for pupils to retell the story using language that signals a time sequence.

Author & Illustrator: Eric Carle
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 0-582-50471-6
(available as a big book)

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