"Songbirds" is a new Phonics series from "Oxford Reading Tree". It comprises real stories written by the best-selling author of "The Gruffulo", Julia Donaldson. All the stories are phonic stories that support the latest curriculum developments. "Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds" provide: fully decodable texts that build on pupils' phonic knowledge as they work through the 36 books over 6 stages; opportunities for segmenting, blending and matching sounds and letter blends; lively illustrations by a variety of artists; flexible activities that can be tailored to your phonic teaching; and an exciting interactive CD-Rom to accompany Stages 4-6. Stage 6 titles practise the long vowel sounds made by these letters: "Tara's Party" - ar, a; "Paula the Vet" - or, au, aw, ore; "Where Were You Bert?" - er, ir, ur; "Clare and the Fair" - air, are, ear; "The Deer and the Earwig" - ear, eer, ere; and "Jack and the Giants" - ure, our.

 

This book features in the following series: Oxford Reading Tree-Stage 6, Songbirds Phonics .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This 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.

There are 25 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Oxford University Press .

Julia Donaldson is a former Children's Laureate and the author of the internationally bestselling book The Gruffalo, as well as numerous other popular titles.