This photographic non-fiction book tracks the life of a turtle. Initially
meeting the mother, we stay with her eggs and follow a hatched baby turtle
along the dangerous sands to the sea. A story of survival, the turtle returns
to the beach to lay its own eggs.
• Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
• Text type – A non-fiction recount.
• A flow-chart on pages 14 and 15 provides an opportunity to recap and discuss
the story.
• Curriculum links – Science: Life processes and living things; Humans and
other animals.
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
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