Engaging and fun, this poem is about the school day and is written by award-winning contemporary poet Wendy Cope.

* Engaging and fun, this poem is about the school day and is written by award-winning contemporary poet Wendy Cope.

* Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language

* On pages 14-15, children can recap the different school activities featured in the poem using a story map.

* Text type: A poem

* Curriculum links: Citizenship: Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .

This book has been graded for interest at 4-6 years. 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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Mike Phillips is the author of several books and screenplays as well as his award-winning Sam Dean novels. In 1997 he was Writer in Residence at London's South Bank Centre. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Wendy Cope is best known for her award-winning contemporary poetry for adults, but has also written extensively for children.