Beware Beware

Beware Beware

Susan Hill

Illustrated by Angela Barrett

Beware Beware is a lovely picture book telling the story of a little, adventurous girl who wanders too far and gets lost in the woods.

I used the book as a story to run alongside Giant's Necklace, using it as differentiation for two statemented year 6 girls. The language within the story would be challenging for very low ability but most of the words can be sounded out using phonic knowledge so can be decoded. The words are also often repeated and patterns start to emerge which would help the reader. The text seems to be quite poetic and allows a rhythm to be set when reading the story.

The characters and language used also helped the girls to discuss ideas of emotive language and we were able to get them to explore hot seating, as the rest of the class were doing for Giant's Necklace.

The pictures within the book are beautiful and lend themselves well for discussing personification, similes and metaphors and they visually show the descriptions that could be written.

There is also a couple of different page layouts, with smaller pages, which add a bit more interest to the look of the book and help tell the story.

The girls who read the story thoroughly enjoyed it, they liked to find different pictures within each page and found a lovely descriptive page which became their favourite.