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Androcles and The Lion
Summary
First Reading Level 4
Androcles and The Lion
- Aesop’s fable of kindness and friendship retold with simple text to help beginner readers develop reading stamina.
- It’s a hard life being a slave in Ancient Rome. So Androcles escapes to the forest – and comes face to face with a lion. But could the mighty beast and the runaway slave help each other out?
- Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
“irresistible for children learning to read”
Child Education Plus
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- Hardback with ribbon marker
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English Learners' Editions
Usborne English Learners Editions are selected titles from the Usborne Reading Programme that are available with CD recordings in British and American English, and with downloadable worksheets and teacher's notes.
To find out more about English Learners' Editions, and download the free worksheets and teacher's notes go to www.usborne.com/englishlearnerseditions.
Collected teacher's notes and student's worksheets (photocopiable format) can also be purchased as paperback books.
Press & Blog Reviews
The Usborne Young Reading Program has a lovely selection of classic tales adapted for younger readers. Graded in seven levels, these have just enough stretch in them and yet are not too overwhelming.
The Irish Sunday Independent
Usborne's award winning range of children's books now includes a vibrant Reading Programme, featuring over 200 brilliant titles that supplement National Curriculum levels 1C to 4A. Bright full-cover illustrations combine with lively text to make these colourful hardback fact and fiction books irresistible for children learning to read, and will help capture their imagination and build confidence as they move from one level to the next.
Child Education Plus - top teaching resources to support the curriculum
Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme. Seven steps take beginners from simply written folk stories told in 150 words through to lovers of classic and original stories and histories, biographies and classics told in 5,000 words. Colour-coded for ease of use, and presented in a beautiful hardback, every story is well-written and attractively illustrated in full colour by leading artists.
Julia Eccleshare
The book has clear colour illustrations, helping children understand the words when they are first learning to read. The words used are simple, and along with fun speech bubbles the book will inspire beginner readers. This is one of the books in the Usborne First Reading series. Other titles to look out for in local libraries include "The Inch Prince" and "Danny the Dragon", both by Russell Punter.
Whitehaven News
Extras
- English Learners' Editions website
Visit the English Learners' Editions website for student's worksheets and teacher's notes.
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