This book focuses on developing independence, fluency and comprehension, encouraging children to read, absorb factual text and ask simple questions. It encourages children to clarify the meaning of new vocabulary. As a Booklife reader with a geographical theme it is not only for developing reading but also for creating a learning experience. It covers What are Maps?: Mapping Local Areas: What does a Town Map Look Like?; How City Maps are Made; Using a Compass; Landscapes; Early Maps; Size and Scale; and Grids. The book finishes with an Index page, and a page of Questions to reinforce what the reader has learnt. Aimed at emerging readers (KS1/early KS2), (aged 5-8), as a reading experience, it is phonetically decodable and is a useful book for Primary Schools using a Geography theme to increase children’s reading and learning about maps.
Paul Baker
Book Life Publishing ISBN 9781801551168 £5.99
