Instructional Readers Companion Animals based on real-life SPCA animal rescues, and contain messages about animal care, animal welfare, and tips for families on how to be responsible animal guardians.
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:
The Mouse at the Mall - Level: Light Blue (17 – 18) Reading Age: 7yrs – 7 ½ yrs A girl and her mother go to the mall to buy shoes. They leave with a shoebox with a toilet roll and a mouse inside. What will happen next?
The Problem with Sione’s Spaghetti - Level: Purple (19 – 20) Reading Age: 7 ½ yrs – 8yrs Sione’s pet rabbit has a problem. Sione’s solution involves a pack of raging rhinos, but will it work?
Storm Gets a New Family - Level: Purple (19 – 20) Reading Age: 7 ½ yrs – 8yrs Storm used to spend his days chained to kennel till his life was changed by a bolt of lightning and a girl with friendly eyes.
The Smooth Movers’ Club - Level: Gold (21-22) Reading Age: 8yrs – 8 ½ yrs A boy and his father want their move to the city to go smoothly for their cat Noah. It does, until Muscles, the fearsome neighbourhood tomcat, turns up.
Sam and Charlie Love Pudding - Level: Silver (23-24) Reading Age: 8 ½ yrs – 9yrs When the abandoned cat who lives under the sports shed at their school gets into trouble, Sam and Charlie have to act.
Wake Up, Drongo! - Level: Purple (19 - 20) Reading Age: 7 ½ yrs – 8yrs Pirate the parakeet lives a lonely, boring life in a small cage. Will his dream to join the birds outside ever come true?
