Flea and Big Bill

Flea and Big Bill is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about taking a ride on Big Bill’s hat! Flea got to go on the bus, to shops, to the movies…until flea went on Big Bills head, and Big Bill started to scratch! Big Bill turned on the shower, but flea escaped to Big Bill’s bed. The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrative text.

Flea and Big Bill 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 changes in font style like bold and illustrative text as well as the purpose, layout, and design of a sequence. There is a story sequence at the end of the book to demonstrate the order of events. An activity on drawing and writing about where else Flea could sleep is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (scratch), high-frequency words (saw), and positional words (under). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Big Bill), full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on digraph sh (shouted), word family eep (sleep), and suffix ing (going).

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