Written by Roderick Hunt ond Annemorie Young Illustroted by AIex Brychto Phonics Consultqnt: Debbie Hepplewhite
BEFORE READING
DURING READING
Tolk together
Enjoy the story together. If your chitd needs support to reod the
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Reod the titte together. Hetp your chitd
to reod Enormous by breoking it into syttobtes (E-nor-mous).
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Reod the bturb. Ask: Whot do you think
Chip's ideo will be?
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Look through the book ond totk obout the pictures.
About the words in this book * Your chitd shoutd be obte to sound
words: * Ask your chitd to point from left to right under eoch word whitst reoding.
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out ond btend some words, which moy inctude:
wil,t thot see need minibus
down took good fix
Some words moy be more chollenging.
Encouroge or model btending, then reod the words betow to your chitd
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Model how to sound out ond btend new words if necessory. If o word is stitl too tricky, simpty soy the whote word for your chitd. Use the pictures to totk obout the story ond leorn the meoning of new words.
if necessory.
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we come enormous peop[e picture squores yellow
The minibus broke down.
"lt will cost, o lot to fix it,"
"We need lots of moneg,"
soid Mrs MoU.
soid Chip.
'We con point on enormous cictu re;' soid Chip.
"We con oll point o bit," he soi "We con," soid Mrs MoU.
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Mrs MoU mode o COPU of the picture. She cut ir into squores.
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"Point o big picture of Uour bit," soid Mrs MoU.
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to point Uellow petols.
Chip just hod Uellow squore.
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Mrs MoU tool< oll the children's squores.
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People come to see the enormous picture.
It mode o lot of moneu.
The minibus wos mended.
"ThF enormous picture did o good jobi' soid Mrs MoU.
AFTER READING
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Look ot poge I ond osk: Where might the children hove been going when the minibus broke down? At the end, osk: Why did Mrs Moy soy the enormous picture hod done'o good job'? Exptoin thot the chitdren's picture is [ike o very fomous pointing by on ortist cotted Vincent von Gogh. Ask: Hove you ever seen o fomous pointing?
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would like to thank the Van Gogh Museum, Arrlstcrdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) for thet ldnd l)crnlission to reproduce Surfowers by Vlncent van Gogh.
'li.xt O Roderick Hunt
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Ilhlstrations O Alex Brychta 2011
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'l'hc characters iD this work are the original creation ol Roderick Hunt and Alex Blychta who retain (r)pyright in the characters. Irirst published 2011 ISBN 978-0-19-848397-7
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