The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills with simple first words and sentences.
Wordless Stories A and Wordless Stories B introduce the characters and children learn that the pictures tell a story, where a story begins and how to turn the pages. First Words and More First Words introduce children to simple words and the characters' names.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills.
First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency.
Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.


Stage 1+ First Sentences is a new colour band at a higher level of Stage 1 to bridge between First Words and Stage 2. Full sentences introduce National Literacy Strategy words required to be learnt by Reception Year pupils in imaginative and attractive stories which include: a game of hide and seek; a football game; mysterious footprints in the garden; some daring tricks on a bike; a sad time for Floppy; and Kipper keeping a diary. The latter is delightfully
illustrated by Alex Brychta and his six-year-old sone, Dylan. The six stories are available in both "Little Book" and "Big Book" formats.

N.B. The new mauve colour band, Stage 1+, is the same as Oxford Literacy Web Stage 1.


Stage 1+ First Sentences is a new colour band at a higher level of Stage 1 to bridge between First Words and Stage 2. Full sentences introduce National Literacy Strategy words required to be learnt by Reception Year pupils in imaginative and attractive stories which include: a game of hide and seek; a football game; mysterious footprints in the garden; some daring tricks on a bike; a sad time for Floppy; and Kipper keeping a diary. The latter is delightfully
illustrated by Alex Brychta and his six-year-old sone, Dylan. The six stories are available in both "Little Book" and "Big Book" formats.

N.B. The new mauve colour band, Stage 1+, is the same as Oxford Literacy Web Stage 1.

Oxford Reading Tree

by Alex Brychta

Published 18 September 1997
"Clip Art" disks, containing a bank of images and words from "Oxford Reading Tree" stories in colour and black and white, include: the main characters in a variety of poses; a number of background scenes and characters from the stories; familiar objects such as the magic key and abandoned glasses; and the key words from Stages 1 to 3. Children can recreate "Reading Tree" stories or write their own, and teachers can make activity sheets to suit various needs. Useful ideas and activities for using the "Clip Art" are given in the instruction manual. The package should be especially useful for teachers of special needs children.

Oxford Reading Tree

by Alex Brychta

Published 1 March 1999
These are Big Book versions of the Stage 9 Magpies storybooks which were published in 1993. This pack contains: Green Island, Storm Castle, Superdog, The Litter Queen, The Quest, Survival Adventure.


Oxford Reading Tree

by Roderick Hunt

Published 1 March 1999
"Magpies" are written for children of average reading ability and build on vocabulary and reading skills already acquired at "Owls Stages 6-7". They introduce longer, more complicated sentence structures, involve more complex storylines and subplots, and offer a starting point for story-writing. This pack contains one copy of each title of the "big books" for stage 8: "The Kidnappers", "Viking Adventure", "The Rainbow Machine", "The Flying Carpet", "A Day in London" and "Victorian Adventure".

Stage 1+ First Sentences is a new colour band at a higher level of Stage 1 to bridge between First Words and Stage 2. Full sentences introduce National Literacy Strategy words required to be learnt by Reception Year pupils in imaginative and attractive stories which include: a game of hide and seek; a football game; mysterious footprints in the garden; some daring tricks on a bike; a sad time for Floppy; and Kipper keeping a diary. The latter is delightfully
illustrated by Alex Brychta and his six-year-old sone, Dylan. The six stories are available in both "Little Book" and "Big Book" formats.

N.B. The new mauve colour band, Stage 1+, is the same as Oxford Literacy Web Stage 1.

Stage 1+ First Sentences is a new colour band at a higher level of Stage 1 to bridge between First Words and Stage 2. Full sentences introduce National Literacy Strategy words required to be learnt by Reception Year pupils in imaginative and attractive stories which include: a game of hide and seek; a football game; mysterious footprints in the garden; some daring tricks on a bike; a sad time for Floppy; and Kipper keeping a diary. The latter is delightfully
illustrated by Alex Brychta and his six-year-old sone, Dylan. The six stories are available in both "Little Book" and "Big Book" formats.

N.B. The new mauve colour band, Stage 1+, is the same as Oxford Literacy Web Stage 1.

Oxford Reading Tree

by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta

Published 1 October 2003
From the inimitable Hunt/Brychta stable, stories specially written for children needing help to progress to Stage 4 include: the role reversals of a knight, a princess and a dragon; Dad in pursuit of his musical hobby much to Floppy's consternation; a community help project to improve the environment; a strange creature which turns up in the park; Mrs May in great distress (but don't worry, there's a happy ending); and Mum and Dad experiencing the ups and downs of shopping together. Each book consolidates words from Stage 3 Wrens, in patterned sentence constructions. Earlier ORT key words and other high frequency words are also used.

Stage 1+ First Sentences is a new colour band at a higher level of Stage 1 to bridge between First Words and Stage 2. Full sentences introduce National Literacy Strategy words required to be learnt by Reception Year pupils in imaginative and attractive stories which include: a game of hide and seek; a football game; mysterious footprints in the garden; some daring tricks on a bike; a sad time for Floppy; and Kipper keeping a diary. The latter is delightfully
illustrated by Alex Brychta and his six-year-old sone, Dylan. The six stories are available in both "Little Book" and "Big Book" formats.

N.B. The new mauve colour band, Stage 1+, is the same as Oxford Literacy Web Stage 1.