Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics: Level 4: Teaching Notes - Softcover

Donaldson, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198388527 ISBN 13: 9780198388524

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Synopsis

Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated stories written by best-selling author Julia Donaldson. The series contains a variety of storylines, rhyme, rhythm and genre ensuring there is something for every child to enjoy. The rich, patterned language in the stories is decodable making them perfect for children to practise their phonics. Songbirds Phonics can be used as a complete phonics programme, or the individual books can be used for phonics practice alongside any other phonics programme. Level 4 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ee as in tree, ie as in tie, oa as in boat and ai as in train. These invaluable teaching notes feature flexible activities to suit your classroom needs. They contain guidance on group reading for all six of the Level 4 Songbirds Phonics titles: Queen Anneena's Feast, Spike Says, The Wrong Kind of Knight, Moan, Moan, Moan!, The Snake and the Drake, Tadpoles. They also include helpful tables of the focus phonics in each story, as well as extension activities that have been designed to improve children's language comprehension and word recognition.

About this title

About the Author:

Julia Donaldson has written over forty books, including the extremely popular picture book The Gruffalo, which won three major British book awards: The Smarties Prize, The Blue Peter Award for `The Best Book to Read Aloud and the Experian `Big Three Award.

Review:

`An excellent full range of phonic usage for these stages of text. I feel children would benefit immensely from the scheme.' St Nicholas Primary School , Oxford

`What a lovely way of showing the relation of text to words in a story!' Literacy Teacher, Oxfordshire

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• ISBN 10: 0198388527
• ISBN 13: 9780198388524
• Binding: Paperback