The Wind

What can the wind blow? A collection of colourful photographs show how the wind can blow a kite, boats, leaves, seeds, windmills,sand, snow and sea. The report also shows how strong wind can be destructive blowing trees and even houses down.Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.Text types – A non-chronological report.A chart on pages 14 and 15 draw a comparison between light and strong winds giving children the opportunity to discuss wind and its effects.Curriculum links – Science: pushes and pulls; Geography: our local area.This book is paired with a story on the same theme: The New Kite by Julie Sykes.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery