Reading Champion: How Elephant Learnt Some Manners: Independent Reading 12

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). This book is aimed at Independent Reading 12, for readers aged 7 years old and up, or in the second half of Year 3.\r\n\r\nElephant is the biggest and also thinks hes the best. Hes always a bit rude to the other animals, until some clever squirrels teach him a lesson.\r\n\r\nReading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.\r\n\r\nFantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a childs reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.\r\n\r\nThe Key Stage 2 Reading Champion Books are suggested for use as follows:\r\nIndependent Reading 11: start of Year 3 or age 7+\r\nIndependent Reading 12: end of Year 3 or age 7+\r\nIndependent Reading 13: start of Year 4 or age 8+\r\nIndependent Reading 14: end of Year 4 or age 8+\r\nIndependent Reading 15: start of Year 5 or age 9+\r\nIndependent Reading 16: end of Year 5 or age 9+\r\nIndependent Reading 17: start of Year 6 or age 10+\r\nIndependent Reading 18: end of Year 6 or age 10+