Spider Homes

Spider Homes is an informational text explaining that spiders can live in a web, in water, on water, in a garden, and in holes.  The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.  Several questions are posed directly to the reader.

All the sentences are short and predictable.  Vibrant photographs match the text directly.  Labels highlight important parts in the photographs.  Question marks are used.  The book concludes with a labelled visual summary of the text and an index.

The high frequency words are it and where.  Interest words include hole, bubble, and water.  The positional words are in, on, and out.

This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 700 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.