Read at Home
15 total works
Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 18 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are now carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C.
The Golden Touch, a magic key story, is Level 5a for children Reading with Confidence - those children who can recognize 75+ words by sight, can read with less support and who can read silently and read ahead. The story has 4-6 sentences per page.
Approx ORT level: Stage 6-7
BL Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
- Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
- Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
The Golden Touch, a magic key story, is Level 5a for children Reading with Confidence - those children who can recognize 75+ words by sight, can read with less support and who can read silently and read ahead. The story has 4-6 sentences per page.
Approx ORT level: Stage 6-7
BL Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
- Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
- Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
Biff, Chip, Kipper, Mum and Dad all try to pull up the old stump but Floppy saves the day.
Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.
The Old Tree Stump is for children Becoming a Reader - those children who can recognize 10-20 words by sight, can read simple sentences, and know all the initial letter sounds. The story is written with a simple sentence structure and vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. Level 3 corresponds roughly to ORT stage 3-4.
Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.
The Old Tree Stump is for children Becoming a Reader - those children who can recognize 10-20 words by sight, can read simple sentences, and know all the initial letter sounds. The story is written with a simple sentence structure and vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. Level 3 corresponds roughly to ORT stage 3-4.
Floppy isn't allowed on the beach, so Dad, Biff, Chip and Kipper make Mum a surprise.
Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.
The Real Floppy is Level 3b for children Becoming a Reader - those children who can recognize 10-20 words by sight, can read simple sentences, and know all the initial letter sounds. The story is written with a simple sentence structure and vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. Level 3 corresponds roughly to Oxford Reading Tree stage 3-4.
Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.
The Real Floppy is Level 3b for children Becoming a Reader - those children who can recognize 10-20 words by sight, can read simple sentences, and know all the initial letter sounds. The story is written with a simple sentence structure and vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. Level 3 corresponds roughly to Oxford Reading Tree stage 3-4.
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks.
From Gran picking an apple to Chip and Wilf spying a zebra, this book takes the reader through a series of fun events to help him/her learn alphabet letters and sounds.
Throughout, parent and child can see either the capital letter (e.g. A), the lower case letter (e.g. a), the letter at the beginning of word (e.g. apple) and the word in a sentence e.g. Gran picked an apple. Fun illustrations support the text throughout.
As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Floppy's ABC helps your child to:
*Recognise familiar letter shapes and words
*Develop important word skills and enjoy reading
*Boost their learning with lively illustrations and large clear print
*Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to the ABC
*Includes capital and lower case letters (e.g. Aa)
*Includes the letters within words and sentences to prepare the child for learning to read
*The story and skill and been carefully introduced and levelled to prepare the reader for school.
From Gran picking an apple to Chip and Wilf spying a zebra, this book takes the reader through a series of fun events to help him/her learn alphabet letters and sounds.
Throughout, parent and child can see either the capital letter (e.g. A), the lower case letter (e.g. a), the letter at the beginning of word (e.g. apple) and the word in a sentence e.g. Gran picked an apple. Fun illustrations support the text throughout.
As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Floppy's ABC helps your child to:
*Recognise familiar letter shapes and words
*Develop important word skills and enjoy reading
*Boost their learning with lively illustrations and large clear print
*Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to the ABC
*Includes capital and lower case letters (e.g. Aa)
*Includes the letters within words and sentences to prepare the child for learning to read
*The story and skill and been carefully introduced and levelled to prepare the reader for school.
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and
child to enjoy together.
Kipper's Weather Week:
Kipper is building a den in the garden, but can it survive the weather?
This story introduces children to a range of weather types, descriptive weather words and to the four seasons. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and help develop the skill of recognising different types of weather and their properties. Throughout the story the weather is recorded on Kipper's Weather Chart on the left-hand page and then the weather is explored in the context of the story text on the right-hand page.
child to enjoy together.
Kipper's Weather Week:
Kipper is building a den in the garden, but can it survive the weather?
This story introduces children to a range of weather types, descriptive weather words and to the four seasons. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and help develop the skill of recognising different types of weather and their properties. Throughout the story the weather is recorded on Kipper's Weather Chart on the left-hand page and then the weather is explored in the context of the story text on the right-hand page.
Read at Home: First Skills: Floppy's Colours
by Roderick Hunt and Annemarie Young
Published 6 August 2009
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Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Floppy's Colours:
The children paint a colourful picture for Gran.
This story introduces children to a range of colours. Throughout the story a colour is introduced on the left-hand page, the child is asked to help Floppy find things of that colour in a wonderfully detailed illustration to help their recognition. The same colour then appears in the context of the story on the right-hand page. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and introduce the concept of mixing colours.
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Floppy's Colours:
The children paint a colourful picture for Gran.
This story introduces children to a range of colours. Throughout the story a colour is introduced on the left-hand page, the child is asked to help Floppy find things of that colour in a wonderfully detailed illustration to help their recognition. The same colour then appears in the context of the story on the right-hand page. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and introduce the concept of mixing colours.
Read at Home: First Skills: Wilf's Shapes
by Roderick Hunt and Annemarie Young
Published 6 August 2009
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and
child to enjoy together.
Wilf's Shapes:
The children go on a treasure hunt for shapes!
This story introduces children to a variety of 2D and 3D shapes. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and help develop the skill of recognising different shapes and their properties. Throughout the story the shapes are introduced on the left-hand page and then are also highlighted in the context of the story text on the right-hand page. Children are encouraged to find as many shapes as they can in each detailed illustration.
child to enjoy together.
Wilf's Shapes:
The children go on a treasure hunt for shapes!
This story introduces children to a variety of 2D and 3D shapes. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and help develop the skill of recognising different shapes and their properties. Throughout the story the shapes are introduced on the left-hand page and then are also highlighted in the context of the story text on the right-hand page. Children are encouraged to find as many shapes as they can in each detailed illustration.
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and
child to enjoy together.
Biff's Opposites:
Biff and Chip look through some old photos and find lots of opposites!
This story introduces children to the concept of opposites. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and help develop the skill of recognising opposites. Throughout the story opposites are introduced at the top of each page and they are also highlighted in the context of the story text.
child to enjoy together.
Biff's Opposites:
Biff and Chip look through some old photos and find lots of opposites!
This story introduces children to the concept of opposites. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and help develop the skill of recognising opposites. Throughout the story opposites are introduced at the top of each page and they are also highlighted in the context of the story text.
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks.
In this fun story, the reader follows Kipper through his busy day and learns to tell the time.
As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Kipper Tells the Time helps your child to:
·Learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
·Recognise the difference between the hour and minute hand
·Understand the concepts of past and to the hour
·Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce telling the time
·Uses story to help children learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
·Helps the reader recognize the difference between the hour and minute hands
·Includes analogue and digital clocks throughout
In this fun story, the reader follows Kipper through his busy day and learns to tell the time.
As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Kipper Tells the Time helps your child to:
·Learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
·Recognise the difference between the hour and minute hand
·Understand the concepts of past and to the hour
·Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce telling the time
·Uses story to help children learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
·Helps the reader recognize the difference between the hour and minute hands
·Includes analogue and digital clocks throughout
Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C.
Ouch! is Level 2C for children Starting to Read - those children who can recognize a few words by sight, can use pictures to read simple sentences and who know some initial letter sounds. The story has 1-2 sentences per page with lots of patterning and repetition.
This book is at the same reading level as 2C Floppy and the Bone
Approx ORT level: Stages 2-3
Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
BLRoderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
BLAlex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
Ouch! is Level 2C for children Starting to Read - those children who can recognize a few words by sight, can use pictures to read simple sentences and who know some initial letter sounds. The story has 1-2 sentences per page with lots of patterning and repetition.
This book is at the same reading level as 2C Floppy and the Bone
Approx ORT level: Stages 2-3
Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
BLRoderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
BLAlex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
Level 2b: I Can Trick a Tiger Book + CD
by Roderick Hunt, Cynthia Rider, Kate Ruttle, Annemarie Young, and Martin Jarvis
Published 5 January 2006
The CD will be in a plastic envelope inside the back cover of the storybook. The story will be read once through for expression and enjoyment and then read again for children to read along at the same time. A sound would signal page turns. There sill be a short introduction to the story to think about the cover and what the story will be about and the puzzle activity will be pointed out. The Think About questions will be read at the end.
BLRead at Home is closely linked to Oxford Reading Tree, the most successful reading scheme in the UK, used to teach reading in well over 75 per cent of primary schools
BLEach story provides a wide range of fun activities to support reading skills:
- a Puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail
- a game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story
BLProvides clear parental support within and beyond the book:
- a "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
- a "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to use with children when they are discussing the story
- a "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
BLHighly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
- Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
- Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
BLAll titles the perfect format for sharing a book with beginner readers - slightly wider than Ladybird to allow for all the humour and detail of the illustrations!
BLRead at Home fully supports government initiatives to encourage parents to support their child's reading.
BLRead at Home is closely linked to Oxford Reading Tree, the most successful reading scheme in the UK, used to teach reading in well over 75 per cent of primary schools
BLEach story provides a wide range of fun activities to support reading skills:
- a Puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail
- a game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story
BLProvides clear parental support within and beyond the book:
- a "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
- a "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to use with children when they are discussing the story
- a "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
BLHighly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
- Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
- Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
BLAll titles the perfect format for sharing a book with beginner readers - slightly wider than Ladybird to allow for all the humour and detail of the illustrations!
BLRead at Home fully supports government initiatives to encourage parents to support their child's reading.
Level 4c: Husky Adventure Book + CD
by Roderick Hunt, Cynthia Rider, Kate Ruttle, Annemarie Young, and Martin Jarvis
Published 5 January 2006
The CD will be in a plastic envelope inside the back cover of the storybook. The story will be read once through for expression and enjoyment and then read again for children to read along at the same time. A sound would signal page turns. There sill be a short introduction to the story to think about the cover and what the story will be about and the puzzle activity will be pointed out. The Think About questions will be read at the end.
BLRead at Home is closely linked to Oxford Reading Tree, the most successful reading scheme in the UK, used to teach reading in well over 75 per cent of primary schools
BLEach story provides a wide range of fun activities to support reading skills:
- a Puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail
- a game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story
BLProvides clear parental support within and beyond the book:
- a "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
- a "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to use with children when they are discussing the story
- a "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
BLHighly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
- Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
- Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
BLAll titles the perfect format for sharing a book with beginner readers - slightly wider than Ladybird to allow for all the humour and detail of the illustrations!
BLRead at Home fully supports government initiatives to encourage parents to support their child's reading.
BLRead at Home is closely linked to Oxford Reading Tree, the most successful reading scheme in the UK, used to teach reading in well over 75 per cent of primary schools
BLEach story provides a wide range of fun activities to support reading skills:
- a Puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail
- a game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story
BLProvides clear parental support within and beyond the book:
- a "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
- a "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to use with children when they are discussing the story
- a "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
BLHighly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
- Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
- Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
BLAll titles the perfect format for sharing a book with beginner readers - slightly wider than Ladybird to allow for all the humour and detail of the illustrations!
BLRead at Home fully supports government initiatives to encourage parents to support their child's reading.
Read at Home is designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C.
These Level 5 stories are for children Reading with Confidence - those children who can recognize 75+ words by sight, can read with less support and who can read silently and read ahead. The story has 4-6 sentences per page. The accompanying CD has the audio of the story for children to read along with and enjoy.
Approx ORT level: Stage 6-7
Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
BL Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
BL Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
These Level 5 stories are for children Reading with Confidence - those children who can recognize 75+ words by sight, can read with less support and who can read silently and read ahead. The story has 4-6 sentences per page. The accompanying CD has the audio of the story for children to read along with and enjoy.
Approx ORT level: Stage 6-7
Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:
BL Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them.
BL Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
Read at Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.
Stories provide clear parental support within and beyond the book:
BLa "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
BLa "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to talk about with children when they are discussing the story
BLa "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
Arctic Adventure is Level 4a for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognize 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, and can use sounds to help make words. The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure and vocabulary with three to four sentences per page.
This book is at the same reading level as Looking After Gran.
Approx ORT level: Stage 4
Stories provide clear parental support within and beyond the book:
BLa "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
BLa "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to talk about with children when they are discussing the story
BLa "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
Arctic Adventure is Level 4a for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognize 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, and can use sounds to help make words. The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure and vocabulary with three to four sentences per page.
This book is at the same reading level as Looking After Gran.
Approx ORT level: Stage 4
Read at Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.
Stories provide clear parental support within and beyond the book:
BLa "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
BLa "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to talk about with children when they are discussing the story
BLa "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
Shrinking Powder is Level 4b for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognize 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, and can use sounds to help make words. The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure and vocabulary with three to four sentences per page.
This book is at the same reading level as Hungry Floppy.
Approx ORT level: Stage 4
Stories provide clear parental support within and beyond the book:
BLa "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
BLa "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to talk about with children when they are discussing the story
BLa "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy.
Shrinking Powder is Level 4b for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognize 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, and can use sounds to help make words. The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure and vocabulary with three to four sentences per page.
This book is at the same reading level as Hungry Floppy.
Approx ORT level: Stage 4