Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. From Gran picking an apple to Chip and Wilf spying a zebra, this book takes the reader through a series of fun events to help him/her learn alphabet letters and sounds. Throughout, parent and child can see either the capital letter (e.g. A), the lower case letter (e.g. a), the letter at the beginning of word (e.g. apple) and the word in a sentence e.g. Gran picked an apple. Fun illustrations support the text throughout. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together. Floppy's ABC helps your child to: BLRecognise familiar letter shapes and words BLDevelop important word skills and enjoy reading BLBoost their learning with lively illustrations and large clear print BLUses the Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce children to the ABC BLIncludes capital and lower case letters (e.g. Aa) BLIncludes the letters within words and sentences to prepare the child for learning to read BLThe story and skill and been carefully introduced and levelled to prepare the reader for school.

Read at Home First Skills are a fun and motivating way to learn about early concepts such as letters, numbers, shapes, colours, time, times tables, opposites and weather, with Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy!

Active skills for reading is an exciting five-level reading series that develops learners' reading comprehension and vocabulary skills.

At the heart of the Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters programme is the Alphabetic Code Chart, which shows the difference between the "alphabet" (the letters) and the "alphabetic code" (the alternative spellings for all the phonemes). It should be displayed to help children to remember how to"crack the code" and reinforce incidental phonics teaching. This pack contains 3 copies of the A0 size chart for display in the classroom.Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters is a systematic and rigorous phonics teaching programme developed by phonics expert Debbie Hepplewhite. It enables you to deliver high-quality, step-by-step synthetic phonics teaching for early reading and writing success.Support for parents and adults on the inside cover notes and at a href="http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"www.oxfordowl.co.uk/a.

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