ORT 8 (18 Books)

• The ORT 8 stage is in which you can understand the advanced sentences and summarize the plot. It encourages the reader to create various sentences by freely using the sentence format.

• It consists of about 1731 sentences.

Big Cat 8 (25 Books)

• Sentence structures becoming longer and more complex. Wider variety of genre but still
illustrated.

• Storyline may be more involved and reflect the feelings of the writer.

• Some books with short chapters for more sustained reading.

• Characters are more distinctive and rounded than at earlier levels.

• Non-fiction texts cover an increasing curriculum range and different text formats.

• Alphabetically ordered texts, i.e. dictionaries and simple encyclopedias, glossaries, indexes.

• Approximate word count 500–750