Fiction Readers: Playground Friends

Playground Friends is a realistic fiction story about the different children playing on the playground today and what activity they are doing. The story is narrated with illustrations. 

Playground Friends is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as high frequency words (the) and positional words (on). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Britney), question marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on initial consonant p (playground). 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.