Clown's Pants

Clown’s Pants is a humorous fiction story about a clown noticing his pants are dirty and trying to wash them. While drying outside, his pants flew away! They went over the sea, mountains, and jungle. When Clown asked a bird where his pants are, the bird said “on a monkey!” The story is narrated with dialogue, speech bubbles, and illustrative text.

Clown’s Pants is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the bold font, illustrative text, and the layout and design of advertisements. There is an exemplar at the end of the book to show an advertisement for lost pants in the newspaper. An activity on drawing and writing about something else that could have blown away is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (pants), high-frequency words (away), and positional words (over). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Clown), full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend cl (clown), word family ook (looked), and suffix ed (washed).

This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 850 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.

Guided reading: E

DRA: 6-8

Grade: 1