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 written for parents to support their children's reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations & are ideal for parent & child to read together. Read At Home First Experiences help parents to: BL Explore the wider world with their child BL Talk about shared feelings & emotions BL Build vocabulary through the fun activities RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home. Level 4 is for children Building Confidence in Reading
- those children who can recognise 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, & can use sounds to help make words. The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure & vocabulary with three to four sentences per page. Each story provides a range of fun activities to encourage talk & support reading skills: BL A puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun & practise looking at detail BL A game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the Difference
- a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story Highly successful, high profile author & illustrator team: BLRoderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, & Annemarie Young, are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them BLAlex Brychta's humorous & detailed illustrations bring the stories alive & are known to & loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers. The size of this book is 17.2cm in height & 14.4cm wide with 32 pages

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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 & 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 ...

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. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent & child to enjoy together. Biff's Opposites: Biff & Chip look through some old photos & find lots of opposites! This story introduces children to the concept of opposites. The questions & activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning & help develop the skill of recognising opposites. Throughout the story opposites are introduced at the top of each page & they are also highlighted in the context of the story text. The size of this book is 17.3cm in height & 14.5cm wide with 30 pages ...

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. From Floppy having no bone (0) through to Nadim playing with twenty (20) building blocks, this book takes the reader through a series of fun events to help him/her learn to count to twenty. Throughout, parent & child can read the number as a digit (e.g. 1) & see it written as a word (e.g. one). The reader can also count items relating to the relevant number on every page. They can also read a sentence about what the character is doing on the page (e.g. Kipper is looking for seven starfish). Fun illustrations support the text throughout. As with all Read At Home books, the book ends with fun activities for parent & child to enjoy together. Chip's 1, 2, 3 helps your child to: BL recognise the numbers 1-12 BL develop important number skills & enjoy counting BL understand essential number words such as half, double, first, last, lots & nothing BL Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to counting BL

Includes:: the number written as a digit & as a word (e.g. 1 & one) BL Children can count items relating to the relevant number throughout BL Support is offered to help the parent at the beginning & end of every book. The size of this book is 17.3cm in height & 14.5cm wide with 30 pages.

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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 & 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 & Wilf spying a zebra, this book takes the reader through a series of fun events to help him/her learn alphabet letters & sounds. Throughout, parent & 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) & 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 & child to enjoy together. Floppy's ABC helps your child to: BL recognise familiar letter shapes & words BL develop important word skills & enjoy reading BL boost their learning with lively illustrations & large clear print BL Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to the ABC BL

Includes:: capital & lower case letters (e.g. Aa) BL

Includes:: the letters within words & sentences to prepare the child for learning to read BL 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



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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 & 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 & learns to tell the time. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent & child to enjoy together. Kipper Tells the Time helps your child to: BL learn to tell the time in a fun & memorable way BL recognise the difference between the hour & minute hand BL understand the concepts of past & to the hour BL Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce telling the time BL Uses story to help children learn to tell the time in a fun & memorable way BL Helps the reader recognize the difference between the hour & minute hands BL

Includes:: analogue & digital clocks throughout. The size of this book is 17.2cm in height & 14.4cm wide with 32 pages

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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 & 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 & 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 & to the four seasons. The questions & activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning & help develop the skill of recognising different types of weather & their properties. Throughout the story the weather is recorded on Kipper's Weather Chart on the left-hand page & then the weather is explored in the context of the story text on the right-hand page. The size of this book is 17.2cm in height & 14.4cm wide with 32 pages ...

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. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent & 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 & 3D shapes. The questions & activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning & help develop the skill of recognising different shapes & their properties. Throughout the story the shapes are introduced on the left-hand page & 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. The size of this book is 17.3cm in height & 14.5cm wide with 30 pages ...

This intriguing new spin on relationship books features a unique format: an illustrated trade paperback packaged with Marion Gales Love Deck, a card collection that allows users to diagnose their hands & read about the corresponding personality traits. The science of hand reading is believed to reveal insight into human emotions, character, values, attitude toward life, & romantic nature. We will also be publishing the Read His Hands, Know His Heart Mega Mini Kit this season. ...

READ ME was first published in August 1998 to tie in with the National Year of Reading. It was an immediate success & sold over 180, 000 copies. We are delighted to be publishing this tenth anniversary edition in the Rhythm & Rhyme month of the second National Year of Reading. ' This book contains Emily Dickinson, Wordsworth, Gareth Owen, Ian Mc Millan, Wes Magee, William Blake & Seamus Heaney
- an excellent acknowledgement of the fact that some days we feel wordy & broody, & on other days we feel as brash as the wind, & no deeper than the surface of our skins.'
- Michael Glover, Independent on Sunday ' The poetic calendar chosen by Gaby Morgan is a delight: motley, wide-ranging & unpatronising.' Observer ' Great riches are to be found between the covers of this unassuming paperback... this treasure trove celebrates the variety of English verse.'
- Beverley Davies, The Lady. The size of this book is 19.3cm in height & 13cm wide & has 489 pages.


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