Big Animals in the Sea

Big Animals in the Sea in an informational text that compares the size of sea animals to humans.  The text has the repeating language pattern “This __________ is big.”

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly.  On every two-page spread, an inset provides a silhouette comparison of the animal and a swimming human. The final two-page spread has an illustration that shows all the animals in the book and an index.

The high frequency words are this and is.  Interest words include shark, octopus, and stingray.

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