Custard's Cat Flap

Custard’s Cat Flap is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about Custard who used his cat flap to let cats in for a party one night! The party made a mess, and when Milly work up, she was upset. She made a sign to warn cats not to have a party at her house, but she did not say dogs weren’t allowed! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrative text, and symbols.

Custard’s Cat Flap 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 layout and design of signs including rebus writing, bold typeface, and labels. There is an exemplar of signs at the end of the book. An activity on designing a sign is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (mess), high-frequency words (went), compound words (pawprints), and positional words (out). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for sentence beginnings, full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend fl (flap), word family ap (cap), and suffix ed (liked).

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