Reading with Fairytales: The Princess and the Pea
Reading with Fairytales: The Princess and the Pea
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Reading with Fairytales: The Princess and the Pea is an activity storybook to support and encourage your young child with learning new sounds and words.
- Uses the familiar fairytale of The Princess and the Pea with beautiful illustrations to engage and delight young children
- Boosts reading comprehension with lots of activities based around a child's understanding of the story
- Reward stickers to boost confidence in your child
Reading with Fairytales: The Princess and the Pea retells the traditional story of a prince who is looking for a princess to marry. One night, a girl seeks shelter in the palace and says she is a princess. The queen wants to check she is telling the truth and puts a pea under a pile of mattresses that she will sleep on. The girl sleeps badly because of the pea, so the queen believes her, and the prince is allowed to marry her!
Reading with Fairytales: The Princess and the Pea helps to boost your child's reading skills by giving them an opportunity to hear the main story read aloud by a grown-up, to read a simple sentence together, and to interact with the illustration with Can You Spot? activities.
Other activities also include a retelling the story activity (an important skill for Key Stage 1), a picture quiz, a rhyming words task and a picture dictionary to spot and learn from.