Athletics

Blue Band 4

Athletics

Letters and Sounds Phase 4

Phonemes covered: Adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes

Athletics is a sport with lots of events.

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Athletics

An information book

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What is athletics?

Athletics is a sport with lots of events.

You can see: runners sprinting

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competitors jumping objects iin fli flight htt

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Sprinting Sprinters run in a quick burst of speed.

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At the start, they power off from the starting block.

starting block

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Marathon In a marathon, competitors train hard to run much further.

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They must not rush at the start but can sprint as they speed to the finish.

The crowd claps to support the winner.

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