Dance to the Beat

A bright, action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. The step-by-step instructions include sequential words at the start of each sentence: First, Next, Then, Now and Stop. Photographs of children dancing support and clearly demonstrate the actions referred to in the text. Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language. Text tye An instruction text. The summary on pages 14 and 15 allows children to discuss and recap the instructions. Curriculum links Music: feel the pulse, exploring rhythm; PE: dance activities. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery