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24 pages colour illustrations Summary: Up in the sky, the Wind and the Sun both have the power to change the weather. But each of them thinks they are stronger than the other one. One day, the Wind and the Sun decide to have a contest to find out who is the strongest. 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