With a focus on building phonics skills, this collection includes seven fun stories with colourful illustrations. It is ideal for children who are developing early reading skills. Find out what's so important about Ron Rabbit's egg, what happens to the Doll in the in and learn about animals inthe Animal Quiz! Tips for reading together explain the letter patterns that each story focuses on and identify any words children may find tricky, helping you to get the most out of the collection.Former Children's Laureate and author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, has captivated children all over the world with her lively and engaging stories. Songbirds is a phonics programme carefully created by Julia to support children who are learning to read and is used in schools to inspire a loveof reading. There are eight Songbirds story collections for you to enjoy.Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.Find practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on a href="https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"oxfordowl.co.uk/a. Let's get them flying!

Stage 2 More Songbirds are six brand new decidable phonic stories to add to the popular Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics series. They are real stories written by the best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson. All the stories support the latest phonics curriculum developments. The Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics series provides: DT fully decodeable texts that build on pupils' phonic knowledge as they work through the 6 stages DT opportunities for segmenting, blending and matching sounds and letter blends DT lively illustrations by a variety of artists DT flexible activities that can be tailored to your phonic teaching DT exciting, interactive CD-ROMs to accompany all stages

Julia Donaldson enchante les enfants grâce à ses histoires envoûtantes et à ses personnages attachants, comme son célèbre Gruffalo. Les trois comptines de cet album ont pour vocation d'aider les enfants à mémoriser les sonorités les plus récurrentes de la langue anglaises afin de faciliter leur apprentissage. Ces comptines sont progressives et s'appuient sur une certaine récurrence des sons étudiés.

Songbirds Phonics combines real phonic stories with interactive whiteboard software to deliver the requirements for high-quality phonics teaching resources. Written by award-winning Julia Donaldson, these stories provide fun, fully decodable texts with built-in progression help your pupils achieve immediate reading success. They are fully in line with the 2006 Framework and the simple view of reading. Each book includes notes for parents/carers and teaching assistants on the inside covers. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same ORT stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of up-to-date and invaluable teaching notes. The books are complemented by eSongbirds interactive whiteboard software which offers a systematic, quality phonics teaching through a multi-sensory approach.

Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is coming soon to Netflix! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins. "All the tales are entrancing inventions." —Publishers Weekly

Songbirds Phonics are fully illustrated stories written by Julia Donaldson. The rich, patterned language is decodable making them perfect for phonics teaching and practice. Level 2 Songbirds Phonics books focus on matching one sound to one letter or more than one letter, e.g. th as in that. This pack contains 6 different books.

A little animal (platypus) hatches from an egg and none of the other animals can identify it, until a circus comes to town and hires the platypus because he is such an unusual animal.

What better way to hold children's attention during storytime than with puppets? Even in an age of technical wizardry, clever dialogue and home-made puppets are all it takes to entertain children. Author Dee Anderson has presented puppet skits for sixteen years in libraries, schools, parks, day-care centers, a mall, and other community locations. Each of these forty-two scripts has been audience tested, some more than one hundred times. You'll find programming material for ages 18 months to 12 years. A former children's librarian herself, Anderson has created scripts that are accessible and practical for busy librarians and others who work with children.

Provides an annotated list of useful fiction and nonfiction, published in paperback, for students in grades one through six.