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 & 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, it is Biff & Chip's birthday. They have a number of friends coming, invitations to send, food to buy & so much more! With so many children & so much to do, Dad shows Biff that using times tables can help prepare for the big day. Times tables are very hard for children to learn. To ensure that the levelling is right, the main focus of the story is the two, five & ten times tables, which are the first times tables children are taught at school. Biff introduces all the times tables, from 2-10, at the end of the book for children to learn & refer to when they are ready. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent & child to enjoy together. Biff's First Times Tables helps your child to: BL learn or revise their 1-10 times tables in a fun & memorable way BL boost their learning with fun & supportive illustrations BL consolidate their learning with topical number facts & questions BL Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce telling the time BL Uses story to help the reader learn the concept of multiplication & introduce them to times tables BL Unlike the competition, the story & skill & been carefully introduced & levelled to prepare the reader for school. The size of this book is 17.2cm in height & 14.4cm wide with 32 pages