We Can Bake Level 3-5

In We Can Bake, two children work together to create a delicious treat-and have fun along the way! This simple and joyful narrative explores cooperation, sequencing, and the everyday experience of baking. Featuring high-frequency words (œI, œin, œthe, œWe) and content-specific terms like œbutter, œegg, œflour, and œraisins, the book reinforces early reading strategies through repetition and clear illustrations. Phonics focus includes consonant blends like œfl and short vowel sounds, offering support for decoding. The story also provides a meaningful way to explore the process of following steps, measuring ingredients, and enjoying a shared activity. This text aligns beautifully with themes of food and family and is ideal for reinforcing one-to-one matching, prediction, and vocabulary in context.

Educational Benefits:

• Reinforces one-to-one matching of words with images
• Develops vocabulary related to food and cooking processes
• Supports phonics instruction with blends and short vowel sounds
• Builds sequencing and procedural understanding through narrative

Classroom Ideas:

• Create a shared class recipe book using the story as a model
• Practise phonics with word cards based on ingredients in the text
• Act out the steps of baking using classroom props or a role-play kitchen
• Encourage students to write or draw what they would bake and with whom

Safety & Information:

• Ages: 4-6
• Size: 20cm x 15cm; 8 pages
• Safe for group reading; no cooking equipment required