Fly Away Home

Poor Ladybird is lost and flies around the garden looking for somewhere she can call home. Her early efforts are rebuffed by the other animals, until finally she finds somewhere she can be happy: a ladybird-patterned T-shirt, where other ladybird friends soon come to join her.

• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.
• Text type – A patterned story with predictable structure.
• The storymap on pages 14 and 15 shows the route Ladybird took in search of a home, providing opportunities for speaking and listening.