Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 6: Songbirds: Clare and the Fair - Softcover

Donaldson, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199114315 ISBN 13: 9780199114313

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Songbirds is a new Phonics series from Oxford Reading Tree. It comprises real stories written by the best-selling author of The Gruffulo, Julia Donaldson. All the stories are phonic stories that support the latest curriculum developments. Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds provide:

* fully decodeable texts that build on pupils' phonic knowledge as they work through the 36 books over 6 stages

* opportunities for segmenting, blending and matching sounds and letter blends

* lively illustrations by a variety of artists

* flexible activities that can be tailored to your phonic teaching

* an exciting interactive CD-Rom to accompany Stages 4-6

Stage 6 titles practise the long vowel sounds made by these letters:

* Tara's Party - ar a
* Paula the Vet - or au aw ore
* Where Were You Bert? - er ir ur
* Clare and the Fair - air are ear
* The Deer and the Earwig - ear eer ere
* Jack and the Giants - ure our

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
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199114315
• ISBN 13: 9780199114313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24