Page 33 - Ziptales Program Manual - AU

Interactive Readers (Extending
Literacy 3-6)

Eight of the most popular Ziptales stories, across a wide range of genres, rewritten for Learning
Support and ESL students. These stories are deliberately ‘hi-low’ (high interest/low readability).
Special features include:

• interactive pre-reading and post-reading exercises
• text lights up to match the voiceover (to aid recognition and decoding)
• art on every page
• game add-ons to test comprehension, as well as motivate and reinforce.

Spiders: Katrina is scared stiff of spiders. And there are spiders everywhere she turns.
(527 words) (Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 2.2) (Lexile: 270)

The green ghost: Johnny agrees to spend the night in a haunted castle. (542 words)
(Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 1.8) (Lexile: 150)

Pop star: Julie has been given a wonderful invention - a microphone that turns her voice
into that of a pop star. But there’s a catch. There are some songs she cannot sing.
(523 words) (Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 2.8) (Lexile: 410)

Where’s that rat?: Roger the rat keeps escaping from his locked cage. But how?
(614 words) (Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 2.9) (Lexile: 340)

Paddy saves the day: Paddy the dog is in real trouble - when a life-threatening crisis
allows him to save the day. (692 words) (Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 1.8) (Lexile: 290)

Pests: There’s a mouse in the house. The owner calls a mouse exterminator. He brings
a cat, which gets rid of the mouse. But how to get rid of the cat? And so on. (710 words)
(Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 2.5) (Lexile: 200)

Treasure!: Luke finds a map showing a cave full of treasure. But he is not the only one
looking. A high adrenalin adventure story. (732 words) (Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 2.2)
(Lexile: 170)

The three tests: A folk tale about two brothers, a magic castle, a princess and a set of life
or death tests. (1096 words) (Zip Stage 4) (Flesch: 1.8) (Lexile: 300)

31