SPCA Storybooks - Animals in the Wild - Set of 6

SPCA Storybooks - Animals in the Wild - Set of 6

Instructional Readers  Animals in the Wild is all about children taking positive action to help protect animals and their environments in kind and compassionate ways. 

SPCA's 24 Instructional Readers (or storybooks, as we call them) help children to both improve their reading skills and learn to care for and respect animals. Each reader is carefully levelled in alignment with the Ministry of Education's colour wheel, ensuring they cater to different ages and reading levels.

By purchasing these storybooks, you are helping to nurture the hearts and minds of the younger generation and inspire a kinder, more compassionate Aotearoa for animals and people.

Published by Wendy Pye Publishing Limited for SPCA Education.

This series of books includes:

• CD and the Window Pain
  - Level: Silver (23 – 24) Reading Age: 8 ½ - 9yrs
  The children in Ms Piripi’s class have discovered their classroom’s windows are proving to be a severe hazard for their feathered friends. The children come up with some innovative solutions for this terrible problem.
• The Kākā Café
  - Level: Silver (23 – 24) Reading Age: 8 ½ - 9yrs
  After finding a kākā with a deformed beak related to consuming an unnatural and unbalanced diet, Room 10 decide to create a school wildlife garden called the Kākā Café to provide wild birds with a natural nutritious diet.
• The Lizard Lounge
  - Level: Silver (23 – 24) Reading Age: 8 ½ - 9yrs
  A brother and sister unable to adopt a companion animal, decide instead to be the guardians of a small creature they suspect is living in their backyard.
• Gannets and Grommets
  - Level: Emerald (25 -26) Reading Age: 9yrs – 10yrs
  Josh experiences first-hand the consequences of people not disposing of their fishing equipment safely when he encounters a gannet struggling in the surf, tangled in fishing line and a weight that he recognises as his own!
• Batman and Robyn
  - Level: Ruby (27 – 28) Reading Age: 10yrs – 11yrs
  After learning about the conservation efforts at a fairy tern breeding site, Aroha ends up the hero in the exciting rescue of two precious fairy tern eggs.
• Marine Life Matters
  - Level: Ruby (27 – 28) Reading Age: 10yrs – 11yrs
  Shocked after discovering one of the balloons she released on her 9th birthday, had contributed to the death of an endangered turtle, Briar is determined to do something positive for the environment.