Publisher's Synopsis
This Big Book provides all the text types required by the National Literacy Framework for Year 5 Term 1, with a wide selection of favourite children's authors and illustrators.
Focus on Literacy Big Book 5A contains poetry, fiction and nonfiction texts and extracts from the following:
Harry's Mad by Dick King-Smith
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Time Trouble by Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
The Silver Fish by Shel Silverstein
League Division Fun by Michael Rosen
Ping Pong by Eve Merriam
Rodge Said by Michael Rosen
Waves by Jerome Fletcher
Giant Rocket by Wes Magee
Shape poem by Shel Silverstein
Roald Dahl's The BFG - plays for children by David Wood
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Phantome Sauage Stealer by Johnny Ball
The Diary of Anne Frank
Sports newspaper report
Growing Seeds
The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo
Tom's Sauage Lion by Michael Morpurgo
The Railway Children by E Nesbit
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ant by Zoe Bailey
What is fog? by John Foster
What is . the Sun? by Wes Magee
Paper Boats by Rabindranath Tagore
At the butterflies by Issa
Steel Band Jump Up by Faustin Charles
At Kisagata by Matsuo Basho
