Earlyreads 3: Jungle Book, The+cd (A1)

Description: This book features essentials of the English language, such as introducing oneself and asking basic questions. It also offers young readers an excellent opportunity to learn other more unusual vocabulary items as the story develops in its jungle setting.
Each chapter is preceded by a picture dictionary which helps children understand some of the less common words, and sparks off pre-reading classroom discussions.
Following each chapter is a multiple-choice reading comprehension, a ‘fun activity’ – such as join the dots, listen and match, colouring in and much more. There is also an acting activity which encourages even the shyest child to learn and speak English.
The accompanying CD is of course, an essential prop for rehearsals.

The EARLYREAD series contains both original stories and traditional favourites, as well as some cultural readers, graded over five levels.
Features of all readers are:
• beautiful illustrations, which not only encourage reading but actively help children to understand the story
• picture dictionaries, for active vocabulary work
• fun activities and games, often for more than one participant, which practise vocabulary and structures in the story.
• a recording of the whole text, either on an accompanying CD or downloadable at no charge from the Black Cat website.
All the readers can be easily dramatised. The most recent titles are accompanied by playscripts which can also be downloaded free from the Black Cat website.

Earlyread Grading
Earlyreads are graded according to the suitability of their subject matter to age group, as well as by structural and lexical criteria (a level 1 reader has no more than 100 headwords, while at level 2 the maximum is 150 headwords). Level 5 represents a good elementary ability (full competence at level A1 of the Common European Framework).
For a complete discussion of the grading criteria used, see The Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers.