Sam and the Big Bad Cat: Yellow level/ Band 3

by Sheila May Bird

Sam the big, bad cat isn’t feeling well. Tom wants to take him to the vet. Sam doesn’t want to go, and finds a variety of hiding places to escape. Tom pursues him, getting more and more bedraggled in the process. Finally Tom goes to bed, leaving Sam – who is feeling much better – to enjoy a snack.


• Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers varied sentence structure and natural language.


• Text type - A story with a familiar setting.


• A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 reveals all of Sam’s hiding places in a pictorial summary of the day, providing the opportunity to recap the story.


• Curriculum links - Citizenship: animals and us.


• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Jennifer]

Read this book with one of my ESL students.... so stinking cute. I loved this book.

[Ben]

Wicked...

Really good story, my favourite bit was when all the food went tumbling down...