This Read with Oxford Stage 2 story collection contains four traditional tales: Dick Whittington; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; Chicken Licken; and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This beautifully-illustrated book with clear phonics progression is ideal for children who are developing early reading skills. These well-loved traditional tales from around the world have been rewritten so that children can read them for themselves. They are expertly levelled and in line with children's phonics learning at school. In additional to the stories, the collection offers tips for reading the stories together, extended story texts that parents can read aloud to their child and story maps that children can use to help retell the story in their own words. 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 oxfordowl.co.uk. Let's get them flying!

 

This book features in the following series: Phonics, Read With Oxford .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is at the following levels Oxford Stage 2, Read with Oxford Stage 2. Read with Oxford Stage 2 is for children who are able to read very simple stories. They will still enjoy listening to stories while practising their own early reading skills at the same time. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Oxford University Press .

Chris Powling has been a teacher, a headmaster, an editor, a critic and a broadcaster. He is adult-books editor for Classic FM where he presents a monthly review on the programme Classic Newsnight. He's the author of more than sixty books, both fiction and non-fiction, mainly for the 3-12 age range. His best-known titles include The Mustang Machine and The Phantom Carwash (Barn Owl Books) and The Conker as Hard as a Diamond (Happy Cat Books). He lives in South London. Sue Mason received a design and illustration degree from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in 1995. She moved to London and worked as a children's books designer at Walker Books. In 2001 she started illustrating, and has been published by Barrington Stoke, Orchard Books and Walker Books. She lives and works in London. Nikki Gamble is the founder and Director of Write Away and Just Imagine Story Centre. Nikki has worked in education and reading promotion for over 25 years, Formerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and teacher educator, she is lecturer, writer and education consultant. Nikki is also on the current Executive Committee of United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA). Kate Slater had her first children's picture book, Magpie's Treasure, published by Andersen Press last year. It has recently been shortlisted for the 2011 Cambridgeshire Children's Picture Book Award. Laura Hughes adores what she does and feels very lucky to be able to illustrate for a living. Each new job is a new highlight for her and she loves the tingly feeling of anticipation when a book comes through. She graduated in 2005 and has been producing artwork for books, cards and magazines ever since. Sue Mason worked at Walker Books for ten years, and is now a full-time illustrator. Some of the many titles she has worked on include Candy Plastic and The Inventors. Alison Hawes is a fulltime freelance writer and has written over 200 titles to date. She has had books published by most major UK educational publishers as well as by smaller, more specialist publishers. Her books are sold worldwide and some have been translated into French and Chinese. Alex Lane has tried pretty much everything from boom operating, to being a horse riding instructor, personal assistant and stuntwoman (not all at the same time). She also went to university and did a degree and then an MA in creative writing. She now writes books, screenplays and the occasional poem, mostly for children. Katie Adams is a vibrant, new author with a love of picture books. Katie has been an early years primary school teacher and now she lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Ilaria Falorsi was born in Firenze in 1982, where she still lives and works as a freelance illustrator. Since 2009, she has illustrated numerous children's books, mainly in France and Italy, for clients including Milan, Tourbillon, Nathan, E Auzou, Edizioni El, Piemme and Mondadori. Busy Chinese New Year is her first book for Campbell. Nikki Gamble is a lecturer, writer and directs the Write Away education consultancy. She is an evaluator for the Literature Matters project which aims to promote children's literature in initial teacher training courses. Gill Munton is an experienced editor and writer of primary school material. She has written stories for reading schemes, workbooks, short stories and a number of differentiated texts, fiction and non-fiction. Christine Pym studied illustration for Children's Publishing at the North East Wales School of Art and Design, and has been working as a professional illustration ever since. She illustrated The Tail of the North Whale, which was shortlisted for the Booktrust Early Years Award in 2009. Christine loves books, folk art, old things, wildlife watching and walks in the countryside, and she draws inspiration from these passions in her work.