Meet children who live on islands all over the world in this non-fiction book. They tell us how they live, what they do and what it's like in their different communitites. Photographs dramatically capture the beauty of varied landscapes.

* Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.

*Text type - A non fiction recount

* A chart on pages 46-47 summarises information about each child and could act as a model for further research.

* Curriculum Links - Geography: Knowledge and understanding of places: Describe and identify what places are like and where places are.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Ruby Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. 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 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

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