Story written by Roderick Hunt Illustrations by Alex Brychta What's this story about? The children are playing football. There are two teams, but which is which at the end of the game? Talk together Read the title on the cover and talk about the teams. Ask, "Do you know the names of any of the characters? Do you like playing and watching team games?” Read the story) {(=Worecsniion @ anguage comprehension | © Begin to read the story together. If the child is keen to read alone, encourage him or her to do so. @ Pages 1 and 2, talk about why the teams are in different colour shirts © Page 1, point out the tricky word ‘are’ and say the word to the child. Repeat for ‘come' on page 4 and ‘who’ on page 6. @ Pages 6 and 7 ask, "Why are the players getting dirty? Do you think Biff scored a goal?” @ Page 8 ask, “What do you think the score was at the end of the game?” @ Encourage children to sound out the phonemes all through the word ‘muddy'(‘m-u-dd-y)) We are all in red.aL ee) | a gy, (| = | ‘| {| | | l TL A, Ste a Te 9” Nie. i a i , S 1 4 a ee o paeee . Paaaa! wip on. > ‘G neh aba : wn : : Pe ae vil We are all in blue. on xh iaze,,lle. SLE. Come on the blues! Come on the reds!OF oe ETE 2 NEM Who is in red? Who is in blue?We are all muddy. Find the sentence To help remember words. © Choose a word from the book and ask the child to find it, © Ask the child to read the sentence the word appears in and then the child asks you to find a word. © Have two or three turns each. Othe! leas You can use these ideas straight away, or on another day. © Ask the child to find a word in the story beginning with a certain letter, e.g. ‘w’ @ Ask the child to find out the shirt colours of some football teams. ell ee