MIGHTY MOUNTAINS, SWIRLING SEAS (ISBN: 9780007591268)

Poems inspired by the world all around us.

• Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.

• Text type—a poetry book.

• Pages 30 and 31 tie many of the poems together in a reader response page that shows the river’s journey to the sea, and can be used as a prompt for speaking and listening activities.

• Curriculum links—Geography: "Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather."