• Help new

readers discover
that written
literature has
meaning and can
be enjoyable and
informative
• Written by fluent L1 speakers familiar with the
readers’ culture and life situations
Written in the readers’ L1 using their everyday
language
• Sentences are short and easy to read; vocabulary
is not restricted
• Focus on familiar people, places and activities
Text and pictures convey exactly the same
message
• In Big Books and Poster Stories, special words,
phrases and sentences may be used repeatedly
throughout the book
Appropriate to the reader’s age,
culture and life situation

Picture for each page describes

exactly what the text says

For small books and big books:

1 picture for each page
Early Stage 1 Later Stage 1 Other
Small books books materials

4- 10 pages 8-12 pages Depends on

1-2 short 2-3 short the type,
sentences per sentences per purpose and
page page content
• WHO will read this story
and
• WHAT are their interests?
• WHY am I writing this
story?
• WHAT do I want to
communicate to the
 WHY Illustrate?

• It helps readers understand

the text.
• It helps readers predict what
will comes next.
• It makes the written text
interesting
• One picture for each page of
the text.
• Show what is happening in the
text.
• Use graphic familiar to readers.
• People and object should be
complete figures
• Should fill most of the space
Which illustration is
more appropriate for
a Stage 1 story
about mother
buying
a chicken?