Welcome to Level FIVE Reading Books (8 - 9 years)

At this level, children might read silently or quietly at quite a rapid pace, taking note of punctuation.

Level five, Twelve-Year-Old Student Smiling

Tasks (in addition to Level 1-4)

At level five, children might read silently or quietly at quite a rapid pace, taking note of punctuation.

  • Can you look through a variety of texts with growing independence to predict content, layout and story development?
  • Can you read silently or quietly at a more rapid pace, taking note of punctuation and using it to keep track of longer sentences?
  • Can you notice unfamiliar words on the run by blending long vowel phonemes, recognising and using them in longer and more complex words?
  • Be more conscious use of reading to extend speaking and writing vocabulary and syntax
  • Take the quiz.

BOOKS

A Rainbow Tale
Aku the Sun Maker
An egg for bride wealth
Fruit
Crocodile in my body
Graca’s dream
Baby snatched by cranes
Fruits of freedom
Hyena and Raven
Hare and Hyenas Fight
How to help someone in water
Lazy Anansi
Kidnapped!
Katitu Momambo the clever little girl
Mr. Motaung’s thirds
Thimba to the rescue
Wayan and the Turtle King
Upside down world
Waiting for baby
When the big blue bus was late

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