Where Are My Keys

Where Are My Keys? is a delightful story about everyday problem-solving within the family home. Mum frequently misplaces her keys because she forgets to leave them by the door. Gina, her daughter, and Dad come up with a creative solution to help Mum remember, by building a pulley device to hold the keys. This inventive tale encourages young readers to recognise cause and effect and follow sequences of events. With rich vocabulary including œpulley, œstring, and œidea, the book supports the development of phonemic awareness through consonant digraphs such as wh. The warm illustrations provide context clues that enrich comprehension, and the ending introduces a gentle twist where Mum also uses a note to help Gina remember something important. This story promotes initiative and thinking outside the box, making it an excellent springboard for design-and-make activities in the classroom.

Educational Benefits:

• Builds understanding of sequencing and cause-and-effect relationships
• Encourages inventive thinking and creative problem-solving
• Supports decoding of consonant digraphs like œwh
• Promotes family cooperation and everyday responsibility

Classroom Ideas:

• Design a simple device to solve a common household problem
• Sequence the story using picture cards
• Act out the story to practise oral retell
• Create a classroom œlost and found area and label it using descriptive words

Safety & Information:

• Ages: 5+
• Book dimensions: 150 x 200 mm
• Paperback, 16 pages
• Safety: Child-safe materials; ideal for group reading sessions