Grasshopper has spent the summer relaxing while the ants have been busy collecting food - but how will he cope when winter comes? Find out in this beautiful wordless book that is based on a traditional tale. Part of Reading Stars Phonics - our structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - The Ants and the Grasshopper is a Phase 1 book (or a Lilac Band reader, following book bands for guided reading). With inside cover notes containing guidance for adults in sharing the book with children, it is designed to support the first stage of teaching children to read. This book links to Aspect 1 of Letters and Sounds Phase 1 - General sound discrimination, environment sounds. In particular it supports the following strands: tuning into sounds (helping develop auditory discrimination skills) talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension) develop an early understanding of narrative structures teach how books work (front cover, reading left to right, front to back, etc.). As well as being available to buy individually, this title appears in the following discounted Reading Stars Phonics (RSP) Packs: Complete Phase 1/Lilac Pack - one of every Phase 1/Lilac title Complete Phase 1/Lilac 6-Pack - six of every Phase 1/Lilac title Complete RSP Pack (Phases 1-5) - one of every RSP title (Phases 1-5) Complete RSP 6-Pack (Phases 1-5) - six of every RSP title (Phases 1-5) For more information on how our Reading Stars Phonics packs work, head here. For more information on the programme itself, head to our dedicated Reading Stars Phonics section.
| ISBN: | 9781800471825 |
| Publication date: | 15th January 2021 |
| Author: | Stephen Rickard |
| Illustrator: | Tim Palin |
| Publisher: | Ransom Publishing an imprint of Ransom Publishing Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 8 pages |
| Series: | Ransom Reading Stars |
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