Here we go! Big Books
BigBooks
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Bold, full colour artwork
A3 size
The Big Books can be read as a class with the teacher
The Big Books can be used to facilitate emergent reading
10fullcolour BigBooks
Available in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho and Setswana
Will grab the learners’ attention, stimulate their imagination and hold their interest.
Can be used for Shared Reading. When the teacher holds up the books, the learners will see the pictures and text easily.
The learners develop as readers through Shared Reading.
Big Books give learners the opportunity to hold books the right way up, to turn pages correctly when ‘reading’ and to develop correct eye movement, such as following lines of text from left to right.
The Big Books are graded The series starts with one-word-per-page books and moves to one-sentence-perpage books.
Simple language
Even second language learners will find it easy to ‘read’ or understand the stories.
Using Big Books to ‘read’ in the classroom give learners the opportunity to:
• answer simple questions
• describe and discuss characters
• draw pictures, capturing the main ideas of the story
• retell the story
• say whether they liked the story
• say how the story made them feel
• respond through mime, movement and other drama activities.
