Hide-and-seek Level 3-5

In the engaging story Hide-and-Seek, readers join a playful horse as he searches for his farmyard friends during a fun-filled game of hide-and-seek. Children will enjoy recognising familiar animals and following along with the countdown as the horse gets ready to find his friends. With repetitive language and playful illustrations, this story supports early reading behaviours, reinforces directional tracking, and introduces simple sentence structures. The book includes focus on phonics such as onset and rime (e.g., c/at, h/ide) and high-frequency words (e.g., and, said, come), making it ideal for shared or guided reading sessions. Children will also practise using punctuation cues to enhance fluency and comprehension. This book fosters a sense of curiosity and problem-solving as students predict where the animals might be hiding and explore sequencing through the hide-and-seek count.

Educational Benefits:

• Reinforces early reading behaviours such as visual cue use and prediction
• Develops phonemic awareness with a focus on initial consonants and rimes
• Introduces sequencing and counting in narrative form
• Encourages comprehension monitoring through visual and textual clues

Classroom Ideas:

• Act out the story using toy animals and encourage students to create their own hiding spots
• Discuss the different animals in the story and their sounds
• Create a classroom hide-and-seek game to reinforce prepositions (e.g., behind, under)
• Have students draw and write about their own version of the hide-and-seek game

Safety & Information:

• Ages: 4+
• Book dimensions: 14.5 cm x 16.5 cm
• Page count: 16 pages
• Safety: Use toy animals with no small detachable parts; ensure supervision during physical games