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24 pages : colour illustrations Summary: Yesterday, my class visited Gold Town. We learned many things about how people lived, and looked for gold, in the days of the gold rush. Skills such as the ability to break spoken and written words into syllables, respond to diagraphs and blends, decode grapho-phonic cues, identify silent letters, notice common prefixes and read common suffixes can be practised at Purple level. This level also offers readers plenty of opportunities to work with common orthographic patterns such as catch and stitch PM guided reading Purple Level 20