Spot Loves his Mum


Written by Eric Hill

For ages 0 to 4

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This book is best for:
  • action verbs
  • labelling

Review

A sweet story about all the things Spot loves to do with his mum. Babies and toddlers will enjoy looking at the colourful illustrations, labelling what they can see on the pages and using action verbs to describe what Spot and his Mum are doing.

For further speech and language targets, see the list below.


Book Details

Narrative Structure: Action Sequence

Themes:
  • animals - pets
  • family
  • mothers
  • places - home

Speech and Language Targets

Speech Sounds:
  • /h/ - help, hurt, hide, his
  • /m/ - morning, mum, yummy, time
  • /s/ blends - Spot, story
Grammar:
  • possessive pronouns (his)
  • third person singular tense
  • action verbs
  • mental verbs (love)
Semantics:
  • labelling
Narrative:
  • time
  • setting
  • direct character speech
Book Info

Published by Penguin Books Ltd in 2006 (ISBN: 9780723257479)

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