Fiction Level 1 - The Best Pizza in the World
While progressing towards this level, students develop and improve their ability to read the simplest written texts, those about familiar topics describing everyday events. The sentences in these texts describe the illustrated events using spoken language patterns and high-frequency words.
The Best Pizza in the World describes a topic that would be familiar to most students progressing towards level 1. It comprises everyday events and experiences that are generally known to the readers. The written language in the text is predictable and has a small amount of unfamiliar vocabulary and accompanying illustrations that directly support the written text. There is a high level of repetition of phrases and sentence forms.
Sample text: The Best Pizza in the World
(Jenny Feely, Horwitz Martin Education, Australia)
This set of teaching activities uses both the Big Book version of The Best Pizza in the World and the set of small books for individual student use. The Big Book is used to model, guide and scaffold reading activities that students can practise applying to their texts.
The framework outlined in Sessions 1–3 can be applied to other fiction texts at this level. Teachers can vary the sequence of teaching activities to reflect the specific strategies and knowledge outcomes targeted at any time.