Oxford Reading TreeSnapdragons Story Collection (30 Books)

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Learning to read takes lots of practise. Your child will cover the sounds and spellings at school but the time you spend reading with them is worth every minute.

Snapdragons are lively, engaging stories to help young children as they learn to read. The Snapdragons Story Collection introduces your child to different writing styles, fonts and illustrators, opening up the world of reading to them.

• Level 1+ books are for children who are just beginning to use simple phonics to read words like ‘sat’ and ’pin’. The books use words that are familiar and predictable, and the pictures help convey the meaning of the story.
• Oxford Level 2: By this stage, your child will be able to use their knowledge of letters and sounds to work out new words, though they may still need help. Pictures are used to help convey story meaning, and sentences are still mostly short and straightforward. Stories become very slightly more complex as your child becomes more comfortable reading more words.
• Oxford Level 3: At this level, your child will be using phonics to help them read slightly more complicated words, including words with common digraphs like ‘ee’, ‘oa’, ‘ch’, and ‘th’. They will use phonics knowledge to work out less familiar words.
• Oxford Level 4: By Level 4, your child will be using their phonics knowledge to work out words quickly and will know a range of common tricky words (like ‘said’, ‘some’, and ‘what’) by sight. They are likely to be more confident in giving their opinion about stories and non-fiction texts.
• By Level 5, your child will start learning alternative spellings for the sounds in words – for example, they will learn that the letters ‘ou’ can be pronounced like ‘ow’ or ‘oo’. Level 5 books may contain words with apostrophes, such as ‘didn’t’ and ‘wasn’t’. They will also introduce children to unusual words that extend their vocabulary, like ‘terrible’ instead of ‘bad’.