Sails: Matilda's Plans
9781442536142
Matilda’s Plans is a collection of paragraphs that describe fictional houses entered into a design-a-house competition. The book also discusses features of a description.
The story unfolds in first - person with illustrations that support and enhance the text. Text is in the form of speech bubbles and descriptive paragraphs.
Matilda’s Plans varies in sentence length and structure with the use of descriptive language. Several words using a long e sound are used such as wheel, steel, end, get, and sleeping as well as words ending in –ly such as quickly and definitely.
This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 700 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.