Read at Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout. Stories provide clear parental support within and beyond the book: BLa "Tips for Reading Together" page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading BLa "Think about the Story" page providing stimulating ideas for parents to talk about with children when they are discussing the story BLa "Useful common words" panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy. Shrinking Powder is Level 4b for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognize 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, and can use sounds to help make words.
The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure and vocabulary with three to four sentences per page. This book is at the same reading level as Hungry Floppy. Approx ORT level: Stage 4
This is Book 7 in the Read at Home Series. See all Read at Home books here.
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Roderick Hunt MBE and Alex Brychta are the creators, author and illustrator of the much-loved Oxford Reading Tree series. They have worked together for 25 years creating and developing a winning formula that is universally known in more than 120 countries. Roderick Hunt writes all his stories to make sure something interesting happens in every one, no matte
More about Roderick HuntAuthor and illustrator team, Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta, are two of the most experienced and successful reading scheme creators in the world. In 2008, Roderick Hunt received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to education, particularly literacy. This was followed by further success when Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstand
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