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Illustrations
Supportive illustrations assist children to decode with text.
Supportive illustrations assist children to decode with text.
Classic Story Structure
Red Rocket Readers feature the classic story structure of introduction, climax and resolution. Illustrations skillfully support the opportunities for critical thinking.
Red Rocket Readers feature the classic story structure of introduction, climax and resolution. Illustrations skillfully support the opportunities for critical thinking.
Instructional and Informative
High-frequency interest words and sentence structures are carefully controlled to be reading level appropriate. Non-fiction texts allow students to access information.
High-frequency interest words and sentence structures are carefully controlled to be reading level appropriate. Non-fiction texts allow students to access information.
Captions
High interest and technical words are featured in captions to enrich vocabulary and increase understanding.
High interest and technical words are featured in captions to enrich vocabulary and increase understanding.
Through a carefully controlled sequence
of challenges at the Early levels of Red, Yellow, Blue and Green, students will:
• increase control of print conventions (supported by the red highlighting of
punctuation until the end of the Red level)
• increase control of phonological patterns and phonic knowledge in context
• master control of increased complexity in syntactic and sentence structure
• further develop their oral language, comprehension and critical thinking
skills
FICTION STRAND
• enjoy a wide range of entertaining fiction stories, including popular
traditional tales
• master more than 20 new words at every colour level
• Extension Activity: Key Word Flashcards
NON-FICTION STRAND
• build familiarity with non-fiction features such as tables of contents, glossaries and captions
• develop skills for reading informational, expository text
• Extension Activity: Key Word Flashcards (Early Level 1 - some titles only)
• Glossary (Early Level 2 and above)
of challenges at the Early levels of Red, Yellow, Blue and Green, students will:
• increase control of print conventions (supported by the red highlighting of
punctuation until the end of the Red level)
• increase control of phonological patterns and phonic knowledge in context
• master control of increased complexity in syntactic and sentence structure
• further develop their oral language, comprehension and critical thinking
skills
FICTION STRAND
• enjoy a wide range of entertaining fiction stories, including popular
traditional tales
• master more than 20 new words at every colour level
• Extension Activity: Key Word Flashcards
NON-FICTION STRAND
• build familiarity with non-fiction features such as tables of contents, glossaries and captions
• develop skills for reading informational, expository text
• Extension Activity: Key Word Flashcards (Early Level 1 - some titles only)
• Glossary (Early Level 2 and above)
