Tiger Dead! Tiger Dead! Stories from the Caribbean: Band 13/Topaz
No. of pages 32
Published: 2009
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In these two animal stories from the Caribbean, find out in the first why Tiger wanted to get rid of all the other animals and keep the jungle for himself and what clever Anansi did about it, and in the second how shy Owl nearly lost everything because he didn't have the courage to show his face.
* Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
* Text type: Two stories from another culture.
* The feelings roller coaster for Owl on pages 30-31 help children to discuss the different emotions addressed in the story.
* Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world; ICT: Combining text and graphics.
* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Topaz 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 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 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers .
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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.
