A Party for the Alley Cats BIG BOOK

A Party for the Alley Cats is a humorous story about alley cats sniffing the air to find a party.  They don’t have any luck until they find kids eating ice cream, and the kids’ feet go drum, drum, drum, moving to the rhythm of the Alley Cat beat.  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and narrative.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  Mostly simple sentences are used.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  Large, colourful display type is used in text to enhance meaning.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The contraction don’t is used.  Singular/plural pairs include foot/feet, window/windows.  The homonyms their/there, shoo/shoe, and heard/herd appear.  Interest words include sniff, drum, rhythm, beat, and skedaddle.

This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 700 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.