Gotta get the baby
James, Margaret, 1953-2013
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
LEVEL TWO reader suitable for 6 to 8 years who are beginning to read alone. Longer sentences and increased vocabulary. Illustrations give clues to help readers anticipate what the words say. Honey Ant Reader 13, 'Gotta get the Baby' is the nerve wracking recount of Trudy Inkamala's community held story, as told to the author in 2009. Three women go looking for bush tucker, one taking her baby along. A 'boogie' woman sneaks up to the baby when the women are focussed on digging for honey ants and takes it away. A few anxious pages later the baby is reunited with its mother. One song at the end of the book, 'Find the Baby', serves as a rhyming musical recount of the story and the other, 'What am I?' teaches Standard English 'bush' vocabulary through the reply 'I'm…' There are 204 words being used in this book, and 6 activities at the back of the book to reinforce the learning.
Main title:
Gotta get the baby / Margaret James ; story-teller Trudy Inkamala ; illustrations by Wendy Paterson.
Author:
Edition:
3rd edition.
Imprint:
Alice Springs, N.T. : Honey Ant Readers, 2013.©2014.
Collation:
33 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Honey ant readers ; n13.
Notes:
The Honey Ant Readers (HAR) is an exciting literacy program that Indigenous learners can relate to and succeed with. It is the first ever early reading program in Australia to be developed in collaboration with, and at the request of, Indigenous elders and community and written specifically for speakers of Aboriginal English. It is underpinned by sound pedagogy and second language acquisition theory and supported by songs and rhymes which teach Standard Australian English. The series has a strong phonics component, focusing on the relationship between letters and sounds, and on sounding-out words, while gradually building on the reader's English vocabulary. The sounds in the first books are chosen, and sequenced, for their familiarity to speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages, including Aboriginal English. Gradually less familiar sounds are introduced. The stories are told in a language which embraces features of Aboriginal English, so that students learn to read in a familiar language that they speak at home and in the playground. The language of the books gradually moves into Standard Australian English according to the natural order of speakers of other languages have been shown to acquire the grammatical structures of Standard English.The themes, stories and illustrations in the Readers were chosen in collaboration with Aboriginal Elders, and therefore reflect Indigenous knowledge, language and culture. Set in the red sandy desert of Central Australia, the stories are about traditional family life, including hunting and agthering. The books are based on real-life events and stories that Aboriginal Elders in Central Australia, teachers, children and communities have shared with the author.
Audience:
Lower primary
ISBN:
9781925002225 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
394199
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Junior Fiction - Graded Readers | HONEY n13 BLUE | Available |
| St Marys | Junior Fiction - Graded Readers | HONEY n13 BLUE | Available |