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Gingerbread
“We need to stop and get some black treacle, some butter, and a box of eggs,” said Nana. “We also need some salad leaves and a cucumber to go with dinner.”
They got the food they needed and returned home.
Papa put the food away and then he and Nana gathered the things they would need to make the sticky gingerbread.
“Now, before we start,” said Nana, “I’m going to carefully take the lid off the tin of treacle and put the tin on a tray, on a very, very low heat. Then we will be able to spoon it out more easily.” “We also need to clean our hands,” Papa added.
“Right! First we need to line a cake tin,” said Nana, as she carefully cut some baking parchment to fit the size of the tin. “Carter, you can get a butter wrapper from the door of the fridge and rub it around the tin. That will grease it and stop the gingerbread from sticking to the sides.”
Papa got the scales out and tipped 350g of plain flour into the bowl on the top. Amber then placed the flour into a mixing bowl while Nana found the next ingredients they would need.
“Get a teaspoon please, Carter,” she said. Carter got a teaspoon and used it to add two teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda and two teaspoons of ground ginger to the bowl.
Nana took a thick teacloth and carefully took the treacle tin out of the cooker. She stood it on a mat. “Be careful,” she said to Amber and Carter, “the tin is quite hot.”
“We must turn up the heat now,” said Papa. “It needs to be hotter to bake the gingerbread.”
Nana took out a saucepan and put it on the counter. “Press the button so that the scales show zero,” she instructed Amber. “Time for something sweet!” They added the next ingredient to the saucepan.
“Now for the treacle,” said Nana. She took the teacloth and held the tin while Amber and Carter spooned the black treacle into the pan.
Jolly Phonics Readers
These readers have been written with a carefully controlled vocabulary, and are specifically designed for children who are learning to read and write with Jolly Phonics.
• The text in these Purple Level Books (fifth level) uses only decodable regular words that use the letter-sound knowledge taught so far: the 42 main letter sounds and the main alternative letter-sound spellings (‹y› as in happy, the hop-over ‹e› spellings of the long vowel sounds, ‹ay› as in day, ‹ea› as in seat, ‹y› and ‹igh› as in fly and high, ‹ow› as in low and now, ‹ew› as in few, ‹oy› as in joy, ‹ir› and ‹ur› as in bird and turn, ‹al›, ‹au› and ‹aw› as in talk, pause and saw, soft ‹c› and soft ‹g› as in cent and gene, ‹ph› as in phonics, and ‹air›, ‹ear› and ‹are› as in hair, pear and care), and a small number of tricky words (frequently used words that are not fully decodable at this stage). In this level, children are also expected to know and use the rule, ‘If the short vowel doesn’t work, try the long vowel.’
• All new tricky words and alternative vowel spellings used are shown on the front inside cover. These can be used as a quick practice activity before starting the book.
• Faint type is used for silent letters, like the ‹b› in lamb.
• Comprehension questions and discussion topics are included at the end of the book. These ensure that children are able to read the text and also get meaning from it.
Purple Level Readers
Inky Mouse & Friends General Fiction
The Circus
The Steam Fair
Gingerbread
The Scarecrow Festival
The Accident Hedgehog Help
Nonfiction
The Hare and the Tortoise Goldilocks and The Three Bears Assembly
The Enormous Turnip Rumpelstiltskin
Puppets
Bears
Dolphins
Ada Lovelace
Many More Monsters
Little Red Riding Hood Monster
Arion and the Dolphins
The Pumpkin Party
Martha Ricks
The Amazon
Hairy Monsters
Town Mouse and Country Mouse
Centipedes and Millipedes
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Sara Wernham 2024 (text) © Kate Daubney 2024 (illustrations) (Beehive Illustration)
