The King's Cake BIG BOOK

The King’s Cake is a humorous story.  Neither the king, nor the queen, nor the cook has “enough puff” to blow out the candles on the king’s birthday cake.  The gardener comes to the rescue with his hose and leaves the angry king with birthday soup. The story is told through simple dialogue and narrative with numerous repeated language patterns. 

The story has a beginning, middle end text structure.  All the sentences follow a similar pattern and are largely predictable.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, ellipses, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  An artistic font is used to add meaning to words such as waggled and squirted.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The contractions haven’t, can’t, and that’s are used.  Interest words include huffed, puffed, waggled, and squirted.

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