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Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 7: Owls Playscripts: The Joke Machine


Treetops

Key stage: Key Stage 1
National Curriculum: 2C

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No. of pages 24

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Great for age 5-10 years
The playscripts are adapted from favourite Oxford Reading Tree stories. Each one introduces the conventions of drama, with scope for non-speaking parts and sound effects. They are suitable for group or individual reading and consolidate reading, speaking and listening skills.

 

This book features in the following series: Oxford Reading Tree, Playscripts, Treetops .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is at level2c of the National Curriculum. The National Curriculum sets out the programmes of study and attainment targets for all subjects at all 4 key stages. Each National Curriculum level is divided into sub-levels, where Level C means that a child is working at the lower end of the level, Level B they is working comfortably at that level, and Level A means that they is working at the top end of the level. The Government has suggested a child should achieve the following levels by the end of each school year: (i) Level 1b by end Year 1, Level 2a-c by end Year 2, Level 2a-3b by end Year 3, Level 3 by the end Year 4, Level 3b-4c by the end Year 5, Level 4 by the end Year 6.

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Alex Brychta collaborated with Roderick Hunt on a series of children books for the Oxford Reading Tree which had an animated spin-off, The Magic Key series. In addition to Oxford Reading Tree, Brychta is also the illustrator of Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper (formerly Read at Home), the Wolf Hill series of books and the Time Chronicles series. He has also written and illustrated several children's books for J M Dent, Franklin Watts, and Oxford University Press. Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award at the Education Resources Awards 2009. Alex was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to children's literature. He now lives in Surrey with wife Dina whom he has two children with, Kelly Brychta and Dylan Brychta. Roderick Hunt started out as a teacher, but began writing for children in 1970. He collaborated with Alex Brychta on a series of children books for the Oxford Reading Tree which had an animated spin-off, The Magic Key series. Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award at the Education Resources Awards 2009. Now he says, "On my income tax form I put down my profession as storyteller. It never fails to raise an eyebrow. " He lives in London.

This book is in the following series:

Oxford Reading Tree

Treetops
All Stars Fiction are chapter books aimed at gifted and talented infants. Designed to be age appropriate, they include stories by top authors such as Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret McAllister and Alan MacDonald, and have been created to motivate and challenge able infants. The books fall into book band colours gold, white, lime.

Playscripts


Often individual series are part of a bigger set. The sub-series this book is in forms part of the following wider set:

Oxford Reading Tree

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