Let's Clean Up! Levels 1-2

Let's Clean Up! follows children as they clean their homes and neighbourhoods, reinforcing the idea that everyone can help keep our planet clean. Through crisp photographs and simple, repetitive text, this early reader provides a clear message about responsibility and care for the environment. It links to Helping Planet Earth (pages 12-13), expanding on sustainability themes for younger readers. The book supports key comprehension strategies such as making predictions, visualising, and using images to extract information. With anchor words like œclean and œhelp and content-specific vocabulary such as œyard, œbeach, and œstreet, it builds foundational language. Phonics features include consonant blends (œcl-, œst-), final blends (œ-lp), digraphs (œch), and high-frequency words. Its strong narrative structure and real-world context make it ideal for shared or guided reading in early years.

Educational Benefits:

• Reinforces environmental responsibility through simple, relatable actions.
• Supports early decoding and fluency with high-frequency and repetitive words.
• Enhances vocabulary and comprehension with visual cues and anchor words.
• Develops phonics skills through targeted blends, digraphs, and compound words.

Classroom Ideas:

• Organise a classroom or school clean-up activity linked to the book's message.
• Create posters promoting a clean environment using words from the text.
• Make a class book about ways we help the planet, using student photos and writing.
• Pair with a science unit on sustainability or recycling.

Safety & Information:

• Suitable for ages 3-5
• Book dimensions: 20cm x 15cm; 8 pages
• Rounded corners and stapled spine for classroom safety
• Printed using environmentally safe inks and paper