Red / Band 2B - A traditional story
Text type - Fiction
The focus phonemes in this book are sh, er, oa and ng. Other phonemes practised are ou (ground), th (this), th (thin), ee, w, oo (look), ie (lie) and ch.
Children can compare and contrast the two main characters using the character summaries on the final spread.
Martin Waddell also wrote Yellow 3 Horse Up a Tree and Blue 4 The Small Bun.