How does a yo-yo climb back up its string? Why does a boomerang come back to you? And how does a kaleidoscope work? These and other mind-bending questions are answered in this explanation text about how toys work.
- Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.
- Text type – An explanation text.
- A table on pages 20 and 21 summarises what makes each toy featured in the book work, for example, magnets, friction or gravity. The book includes a glossary and an index on pages 22 and 23. Both provide lots of opportunities to check comprehension and stimulate work outside the reading session.
- Curriculum links – Art and design: Investigate materials; Science: Forces and movement.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
- ISBN13 9780007186273
- Publish Date 5 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Format Paperback
- Pages 24
- Language English
- URL http://collins.co.uk