The Boat Race - Big Book
This book introduces the five main characters and their families who appear in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series. It is designed for “reading to” students and will allow them to become familiar with the characters before meeting them in the Phonics Plus books. The animal characters are introduced in the big book Frog Finds a Home.
About this resource
The Boat Race is the first of two big books that introduce readers to the characters in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series. It is recommended that teachers read The Boat Race before the big book Frog Finds a Home.
Series: Ready to Read Phonics Plus
The Boat Race
Words by James Brown
Illustrations by Stevie Mahardhika
The Boat Race is the first of two big books that introduce readers to the characters in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series. The big books are designed to be read to students before introducing them to the decodable series.
The Boat Race introduces the human characters and is intended to be read first.
Frog Finds a Home introduces the animal characters and is intended to be read second.
Digital copies
You can download a copy of this Ready to Read Phonics Plus book. Go to the "About this resource" section at the top of the page.
See Materials that come with this resource and choose:
- The-Boat-Race-text (.pdf)
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