Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Leaves of gold and crimson
Curl crisply on the street,
Their papery voices chatter
As they crunch beneath my feet.

• Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
• Text type – A poetry collection.
• Curriculum links – Geography: ‘use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather’.
• Check comprehension and embed learning with a reader response spread on pages 22–23.