Read at Home First Skills Collection - 4 Books+Flashcards $49.90 (Oxford Reading Tree)

Make learning fun and memorable with Chip, Kipper and Biff! With simple stories and colourful flash cards this Read at Home set is perfect for helping children practice their first skills. The series was fully endorsed in research carried out in parental focus groups.

Titles:
Floppy's ABC
Chip's 1,2,3
Kipper Tells the Time
Biff's First Times Tables
First Skills: Flashcards


Features -First Skills books provide clear parent support within and beyond the book
-A "Tips for Reading Together" page gives parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
-A "Talk About" section at the end of every Read at Home First Experience story, helps parents to talk to their child about what to expect and supports reading skills by highlighting new vocabulary whilst encouraging children to revisit the story to locate the word and/or picture

Each story provides a range of fun activities to encourage talk and support reading skills
-A puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail
-A game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the Difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story
-Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Annemarie Young, are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them
-Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers

Size: 170mm x 140mm
Pages: 32
Format: Hardback
Ages: 3 to 5
For: Parents of children aged between 3-6 who are learning first skills and Parents of older children who are struggling with first skills.


Read at Home: First Skills: Floppy's ABC
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 and 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 and Wilf spying a zebra, this book takes the reader through a series of fun events to help him/her learn alphabet letters and sounds.Throughout, parent and 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) and 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 and child to enjoy together.


Floppy's ABC helps your child to:
* recognise familiar letter shapes and words
* develop important word skills and enjoy reading
* boost their learning with lively illustrations and large clear print
* Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to the ABC
* Includes capital and lower case letters (e.g. Aa)
* Includes the letters within words and sentences to prepare the child for learning to read
* The story and skill and been carefully introduced and levelled to prepare the reader for school.


Read at Home Chip's 1,2,3 is a fun and motivating way of learning numbers and practising counting up to 20 using the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce each number.
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 and 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 and child can read the number as a digit (e.g. 1) and 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 and child to enjoy together.


Chip's 1, 2, 3 helps your child to:
*recognise the numbers 1-12
*develop important number skills and enjoy counting
*understand essential number words such as half, double, first, last, lots and nothing
*Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to counting
*Includes the number written as a digit and as a word (e.g. 1 and one)
*Children can count items relating to the relevant number throughout
*Support is offered to help the parent at the beginning and end of every book


Read at Home Kipper Tells the Time is a fun and motivating way of learning to tell the time using the characters in the Oxford Reading Tree stories. In this fun story, the reader follows Kipper through his busy day and learns to tell the time.As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.


Kipper Tells the Time helps your child to:
*learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
*recognise the difference between the hour and minute hand
*understand the concepts of past and to the hour
*Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce telling the time
*Uses story to help children learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
*Helps the reader recognize the difference between the hour and minute hands
*Includes analogue and digital clocks throughout






Read at Home Biff's First Times Tables book is a fun and motivating way to introduce your child to learning times tables, using the Oxford Reading Tree characters. In this fun story, it is Biff and Chip's birthday. They have a number of friends coming, invitations to send, food to buy and so much more! With so many children and 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 and 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 and refer to when they are ready. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together.
Biff's First Times Tables helps your child to:
*learn or revise their 1-10 times tables in a fun and memorable way
*boost their learning with fun and supportive illustrations
*consolidate their learning with topical number facts and questions
*Uses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce telling the time
*Uses story to help the reader learn the concept of multiplication and introduce them to times tables
*Unlike the competition, the story and skill and been carefully introduced and levelled to prepare the reader for school.

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Read at Home: First Skills: Flashcards


Read at Home First Skills Flashcards cover a range of skills including: letters, numbers, maths symbols, shapes, colours and telling the time. They use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills Flashcards are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home First Skills fun early learning books.
The Read at Home First Skills Flashcards will help children to:
* recognise familiar letter shapes and words
* recognise the numbers 1-12
* learn to tell the time in a fun and memorable way
* learn or revise their 1-10 times tables in a fun and memorable way