Locked away inside a cold, stone tower for many years, the beautiful Rapunzel is desperate to escape. But is there any way out? Created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Grimm brother's first book, this fabulous retelling by Ian Beck breathes new life into this well-known tale.
* Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
* Text type: A retelling of a traditional tale
* Curriculum links: Citizenship.
* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .
This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Ian Beck is widely published and titles for other publishers include Lost in the Snow, Lost on the Beach, and Home Before Dark. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.
This book contains the following story:
Rapunzel
A poor couple forced to surrender their newborn daughter to a powerful witch all for having stolen some lettuce to satisfy the wifes unbearable hunger. And so the witch takes Rapunzel to a secluded tower where the girl spends her days singing and braiding her long hair. Then one day a prince hears her sweet voice and decides to set her free. But the witch discovers the plot and chops off the girl's hair. She uses the hair to capture him and turns him blind to keep him from his love.
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.
