"A wonderful mixture of stories including familiar settings to reassure children, and fantasy adventures to inspire them. Packed full of humour, drama, detailed illustrations and endearing characters to motivate every child. Carefully levelled to ensure the gradual development of early reading skills - great for children with English as an additional language." -- Publisher's website.

The teaching notes for the Oxford Reading Tree Biff, Chip and Kipper books are full of practical suggestions for using the storybooks, saving you hours of preparation time. They have been updated in line with the simple view of reading and the renewed Primary Framework for Literacy. They nowinclude guidance for group/guided reading, comprehension and word recognition, and assessment. These replace the existing Teaching Notes and Guided Reading Cards.The storybooks are unchanged, but notes for parents/carers and teaching assistants have been added to the inside covers. These notes replace the existing Take-Home Cards.

This pack contains 6 copies of each of the 5 titles at Oxford Reading Level 2: In A Bit, Poor Floppy, A Present for Mum, Put It Back, The Big Egg.Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories is one of the most popular character series of all time. The stories are full of humour, drama, rich language and storylines to engage and motivate children. The popular characters and a mixture of familiar settings and exciting adventures are brought to life by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta.Each book contains inside cover notes to help adults read and explore the content with the child.Free teaching notes and help with children's reading development is available on Oxford Owl at www.oxfordowl.co.uk

The Level 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. First Sentences provide practice of high frequency vocabulary with highly repetitive text to continue to build fluency. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Contains one copy of each of the five titles at Oxford Reading Level 2.

The Stage 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories provide humorous storylines to engage and motivate children. The popular characters and familiar settings are brought to life by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. The stories are unchanged from the previous edition but the cover notes have been updated to support adults in sharing the story with the child.

Little Josh is ignored by his sister and her friend as they play, until he interests them in a game he creates.

First Phonics is a special new series at the very start of Oxford Reading Tree. It enables children to practise phonics while learning to read.First Phonics:* Promote phonological awareness at Stage 1+ with rhyming stories* Provide more phonically decodable nouns as well as sight-cueable words* Practise Reception and Year 1 sight vocabulary throughout* Include flexible, easy-to-use, FREE Teaching Notes in each Pack* Support your Home-School Agreement with Take-Home Cards for every bookAt Stage 1+, First Phonics books are rhyming stories, with an emphasis on rhythm and rhyme. They have 1-2 sentences per page.