SuitabookBox of Socks
Amanda Brandon, Catalina Echeverri
- Reading
- Pause at the matching game and invite your child to predict which socks might belong to each animal. Afterwards, talk about what Lionel does when he discovers there is no pair for him.
- Themes
- A muddled matching task: After the socks get mixed up, Lionel invents a game to find the right owners for the pairs. The matching game gives the story a simple sorting task.
- Support for beginning readers: The story uses carefully levelled text and illustrations to support young children learning to read. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- Lionel is disappointed when he discovers there is no pair for him. Granny has an extra-special pair for him, but the moment of disappointment may be worth noticing with a child.