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Stage: 4 Genre: Fiction Series: Oxford Reading Tree (Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories) Authors: Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta

In Super Dog, the children (Biff, Chip, and Kipper) are playing superheroes, and Floppy the dog wants to join in. However, the children don’t think Floppy can be a superhero. They laugh at the idea of "Super Dog." But when the ball gets stuck in a tree and no one can reach it, Floppy surprises everyone by jumping up and saving the day! The children realize that Floppy is a super dog after all.

5–6 years old Sentences become more complex Introduction of conjunctions (e.g., "because", "when") Encourages prediction and inference skills Builds independence in reading with contextual support from illustrations Encourage imagination and creative thinking Develop reading fluency and expression Practice narrative sequencing (beginning, middle, end) Discuss real vs. pretend through Floppy’s dream