Lunch Boxes Levels 1-2

Lunch Boxes is a joyful early reader that captures a moment of playful experimentation as a group of children stack their colourful lunch boxes high-until they all come tumbling down. With its simple sentence structure and repeated language patterns, this engaging book is perfect for young learners developing early literacy skills. The visual subplot of a cheeky bird adds humour and encourages close observation. The book supports comprehension strategies such as predicting from illustrations, making inferences, and using prior knowledge. It also provides excellent practice for one-to-one word matching, directionality, and recognising high-frequency and colour words. This relatable story fosters a fun and interactive reading experience, perfect for individual or shared reading in the classroom.

Educational Benefits

• Reinforces early literacy through high-frequency words and directionality
• Builds prediction and inference skills through strong picture-text connections
• Supports understanding of sentence structure and punctuation
• Encourages oral language development through discussion of illustrations

Classroom Ideas

• Have students bring in and graph the colours of their real lunch boxes
• Re-enact the story using boxes and retell it with props
• Play œWhat happens next? based on the visual clues
• Create new endings or add pages showing more stacking attempts

Safety & Information

• Suitable for ages 4+
• Book size: 150mm x 150mm
• Printed with child-safe inks on durable stock
• Rounded corners for classroom safety