Genre: A modern story with rhythm, rhyme and suspense.Learning objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Recognize and use alternative ways of spelling the phonemes already taught, for example, that the long vowel sound /a/ can be spelt with 'ai', 'ay' and 'a-e'.Language ComprehensionStrand 7: Explore the effect of patterns of language and repeated words and phrases.
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Julia Jarman was a teacher before becoming a full-time writer of children's books. Her first book was a story she used to tell her children at bedtime, When Poppy Ran Away. Julia's Jessame stories, also for younger readers, have enjoyed years of success. Her older fictiion centres on historical time-slip fiction which links in with National Curriculum H
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