Search for 'Read with Oxford' to find out more about an exciting NEW range of levelled readers for children aged 3-8 These well-loved traditional stories have been carefully retold using phonics and familiar language so that children can read them for themselves. This Level 3 collection contains these 4 enjoyable stories: Chicken Licken; Right for Me which is based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Cook, Pot, Cook! which is based on The Magic Porridge Pot; and Boxer and the Fish which is based Aesop's tale The Greedy Dog about a dog who is pleased with the fish he has for his dinner, until he spies a dog with what he thinks is an even bigger fish ... The Traditional Tales series offers: *A clear phonics progression providing lots of practice to build reading confidence and success. *A range of tales from around the world - a perfect introduction to different cultures and traditions. *A rich selection of stories and illustrations to capture your child's imagination and inspire a love of reading. *Support for parents including tips, talking points and a fun activity after every story. Also visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk for practical advice, helpful information about phonics, lots of fun activities, free storyteller videos and free eBooks.

 

This book features in the following series: Oxford Reading Tree, Traditional Tales .

. 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 2013 by Oxford University Press .

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. David Bedford has been writing full-time for children for over five years. He lives with his wife and daughter in Norfolk. Peter Kavanagh has over fifty books to his name. He too lives with his wife and two children in Norfolk. 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. Monica Hughes is the author of "A Handful of Seeds" and the Isis""trilogy. Frances Ripley is a children's author who specializes in books on transportation and construction vehicles. 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). With an extensive background in primary publishing for literacy, Gill Munton has written numerous reading scheme titles - fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays - for major UK publishers. She especially enjoys retelling traditional stories from around the world. Ilaria graduated from ITAS in 2001, and after working at different jobs she became a freelance illustrator in 2008. Her clients include the publishing houses Giunti, Mondadori, De Agostini, Petrini, Indire, Loescher, Klett, Eli and OUP. She has also worked with the fashion brands Ermanno Scervino, Benchmark, and Altriluoghi. Christine Pym's first book The Tail of the Whale, written by Ellie Patterson, was shortlisted for the 2009 Booktrust Early Years Award in the pre-school category. She loves books (especially ones for children), drawing and painting, walking up hills and rummaging through antique fairs. She does not like spiders, the dark, or the feel of velvet. Her favourite animal is the hedgehog. David Bedford is the author of over 50 books for children and is published in 30 countries around the world. David's books include Big Bear, Little Bear, and its sequel Bedtime for Little Bears! He is also known for creating flap books for younger children, as well as The Team series for older children. Monica Hughes began her working life teaching young children and spent several years as the head teacher of a primary school. She then moved on to training teachers before taking up writing the kind of books she wished she'd had when a teacher. Ann Sun is a freelance illustrator recently graduated with a distinction from the Children's Book Illustration MA at Cambridge School of Art and Illustration. She has been awarded the runner-up prize at the Annual Ronald Searle Award and was highly recommended at the Cheltenham Illustration Award. 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.