The Gardening Year

by Becky Dickinson

Published 16 January 2015

Spring, Summer. Autumn. Winter. The garden changes with every season of the year. New surprises, new shoots and new jobs for the gardener.

  • Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.
  • Text type – An information book.
  • At the end of the book is a useful checklist of gardeners’ jobs in each season, which can be used for oral recap or to support children’s writing outside the reading session.
  • Curriculum links – Science: ‘Pupils should be taught to observe changes across the four seasons’.