Lessons are organised under headings of "Whole-Class Work", "Group Work" and "Plenary". An overview grid provides at-a-glance information about the word, sentence and text-level work covered. It provides background information about the book, including a synopsis, details about the author and illustrator, and what particular opportunities the story offers for literacy teaching. Each teacher's book has an A1 double-sided, text-based poster in the middle for use as a shared text for the whole-class teaching.

 

This book is part of a book series called Literacy Hour Units .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Scholastic .