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BEFORE READTNG
DURING READING
?olk together
Enjoy the story together. If your chitd needs support to reod the
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title. Ask: Hove you ever soid 'It's not foir'? Why? Discuss the picture on the cover. To[k obout the two different hots ond which one is from the post. Look through the book ond toLk obout the pictures. Reod the
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About the words in this book
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Your chitd shoutd be oble to sound out ond btend some words, which moy inctude:
don't I'm time obout here sqw round knight Some words moy be more chollenging.
Encouroge or modeI blending, then reod the words below to your chitd
if necessory.
oh Mr Mrs cqtled osked coutdn't qrgued loughed
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Remind your child to sound out ond btend unfomilior words f rom left to right. Look for compound
words, where two words creote o bigger word, e.g. moontight. If o word is sti[[ too tricky, simpty soy the whote word for your child. Re-reod sentences to focus on their meoning where
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Mrs Mog wos ill. The children hod o new teocher. He wos colled Mr Frg.
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wos storu time. The children sot in he reoding corner.
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Mr Frg hod o new storu. The storg wos obout o king. He wos colled King Arthur.
'Here is King Arthur," soid Mr Frg, 'ond here ore his knights. Theg lived r long time ogo."
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o round toble. All
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vere knights. 'lt's not foir," soid Biff.
Biff wonted
to be o knight.
"lt's not foir," she soid. "Whg con't girls be knights?"
Biff wos in her room. She wonted to
go skoteboording. But the mogic begon to glow.
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Biff got on her skoteboord. "You couldn't do thot," she soid. "Now con I be o knight?"
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The knights took Biff to King Arthur. "This is Biff," theg soid. "She wonts to be o knight."
King Arthur !oughed.
"Girls con't be knights," he soid. "Whg not?" osked Biff.
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No one wonted to sit down. Theg oll wonted to sit neor King Arthur.
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Biff hod o good ideo. She spoke to King Arthur. "Get o round toble," she soid.
The knights liked the round toble. "It's brilliont!" theg soid. "Now we won't orgue."
The knights sot round the toble. "See!" soid Biff. "Now con I be o knight?"
But everuone loughed. att lm sorrg," soid King Arthur, "but girls con't be knights." a
AFTER READING
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Turn to poges
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Ask: Why did the knights
Ask: Why wos o round toble
Turn to poge 24. Ask: Why did Biff soy'It's foir'? Do you ogree with her?
Text @ Roderick Hunt 1993 Illustrations O Alex Bry.hta 1993 Irirst published 1993 This edition published 2011
The mogic odventure wos over. "It's not foir," soid Biff. "Girls ore os good os bogs."
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