The Group Activity Sheets are three sets of photocopiable activities covering the Oxford Reading Tree stories from Stages 1 to 9. Specifically written to fulfil the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, they include activity sheets for Word, Sentence, and Text level works, and are ideal for group work in the Literacy Hour, and can also be used for individual work. Record-keeping and assessment sheets are included. Book 1 includes Word, Sentence, and Text level work for Reception and Year 1 Term 1, using the trunk stories in ORT Stages 1-3.

 

This is book 1 in Oxford Reading Tree .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Thelma Page, an ex-teacher, has extensive experience and knowledge of using Oxford Reading Tree and has written many teaching guides for the series.