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 4 collection contains these 4 enjoyable stories: Three Rocks based on the story Stone Soup; Hans in Luck which is a German folk tale; Tom, Dad and Colin which is based on Aesop's fable The Man, the Boy and the Donkey; and The Foolish Fox which is based on the tale The Lazy Fox, and in this story the lazy fox asks some sheep to farm the land for him, in return for half of the food they grow. Little does he know that the sheep are planning to outwit him! 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 .

Alison Hawes is a freelance writer specializing in fiction and non-fiction for children. She has been a school teacher, a classroom assistant, and playgroup helper but now writes full time. She has written over 80 books for schools, stories and articles for BBC Playdays. Tony Ross is one of the UK s top illustrators of children s stories. His books are published in twenty-two languages. " 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. 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). 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. 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. Andres Martinez Ricci is an illustrator from Argentina. His drawings have appeared in many graphic media like magazines, newspapers and advertising over the last 15 years. He works for clients in Europe and USA, with several books published by editorial houses such as Macmillan, Harcourt, Pearson, Oxford University Press, among others. He develops his work illustrating articles, in the creation of characters, illustrating literature and comics. Currently living in Spain, he has his studio in Madrid. Paeony Lewis wrote publicity for a non-fiction publisher until her two children provided the inspiration for her first books. Her picture books are now sold worldwide and have been translated into twelve languages. Her popular book, I'll Always Love You, has been read on the BBC show Tweenies. Inspired by the fine art of living, Matte Stephens paints with gouache his happy visions of today's optimistic friends and families with a refined twist. They are immediately friendly and reminiscent of a simpler time he wishes was today. He shows his paintings all over the world. His commercial clients include Herman Miller, Chronicle Books, American Express and IBM. Mark Beech was first inspired to draw by his art teacher at primary school. He has worked with Ogilvy and Mather, The Early Learning Centre, Mothercare, Ladybird Books, Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. He worked with Orchard Books to create the Prince Jake series of children's book and with Alan MacDonald and Bloomsbury to create a series of books called The History of Warts. Tony Ross is a British illustrator and author for children. He trained at the Liverpool School of Art and has worked as a cartoonist, a graphic designer, as the Art Director of an advertising agency, and as Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic. He lives in Nottingham. Tony Ross has become one of the best known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been sold all over the world. Sara and Jan discovered they both wanted to write books for children and that it was much more fun writing them together. In between cups of tea and gossip they've produced over 130 stories, several poems and a play. Traditional stories were very much part of their childhood and they love any chance to retell them. Sue Mongredien has written over 50 books for children, which include some of the best-selling Rainbow Magic series. She lives in Bath with her husband and young children. Mark Beech is an exciting and talented new illustrator. Mark lives in London. 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. For more information, visit Jan and Sara's website www. burchettandvogler. co. uk and follow them on Twitter @BurchettVogler. Paeony Lewis has written a number of picture books among them the highly-praised No More Biscuits! This is her first picture book for Piccadilly. Sarah Gill has travelled widely and lived in France. This is her first full-length picture book.