Biggest Cake In The World

This narrative story Biggest Cake In The World follows a recipe for the biggest cake in the world -from purchasing the ingredients to cutting it up to share. Features of the Book – The use of recipe language. – The distinct sequence of events needed for a recipe. – The repetition at the end of each sentence -“the biggest cake in the world.” – The variety of vehicles and safety equipment. – Natural language -“Mrs Delicious got”. – The “est” word ending -“biggest”. – The “tr” blend -“truck”, “tractor”, and “trailer”. – The high-frequency words -“got”, “of”, and “for”. – The speech bubbles and different languages on the final page. Purpose – The Biggest Cake in the World can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies: – reading an increasing range of high-frequency words in context; – predicting outcomes from illustrations; – discussing the motives of specific characters; – selecting information from the story for a specific purpose.