Read at Home: First Experiences: At School

Roderick Hunt, Co-author and Series Editor Anne-Marie Young, Illustrator Alex Brychta, and Series Editor Kate Ruttle

32 pages | 170x140mm

ISBN: 978-0-19-838640-7 | Hardback

Publication Date: 03 May 2007

Price: £3.50

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Suitable for: Parents who want to prepare children for their first day at school. Children who are at RAH Level 4 and want to read the book independently.

Kipper goes to school for the first time. Everything is going so well until his favourite toy, Little Ted, goes missing

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 written for parents to support their children's reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations and are ideal for parent and child to read together.

Read At Home First Experiences help parents to:

Explore the wider world with their child

Talk about shared feelings and emotions

Build vocabulary through the fun activities

RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home. Level 4 is for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognise 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.

Each story provides a range of fun activities to encourage talk and support reading skills:

A puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail

A game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the Difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story

Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team:

Roderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Annemarie Young, are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them

Alex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers

Features

Read at Home is closely linked to Oxford Reading Tree, the most successful reading scheme in the UK, used to teach reading in 80% of schools
Read At Home First Experiences use the familiar and favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to prepare children for new situations in a fun and sensitive way
As with all Read At Home stories, First Experiences stories provide clear aprent support within and beyond the book
A "Tips for Reading Together" page gives parents practical ideas for helping with their child's reading
A "Talk About" section at the end of every Read At Home First Experience story, helps parents to talk to their child about what to expect and supports reading skills by highlighting new vocabulary whilst encouraging children to revisit the story to locate the word and/or picture
All titles the perfect format for sharing a book with young children - slightly wider than Ladybird to allow for all the humour and detail of the illustrations
All First Experience titles have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home for those children who want to practice and enjoy reading the story independently

Read at Home: First Experiences: At School

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