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Dad's Birthday
Dad gets a birthday surprise! Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 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 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout. Dad's Birthday is Level 1c for children Getting Ready to Read - those children who can recognize their own name, match some words and recognize some letter sounds. The story has a high degree of patterning and vocabulary repetition with one sentence per page. Level 1 corresponds roughly to ORT stage 1+-2.
- GenresChildrens
Hardcover
First published May 1, 2005
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April 3, 2020
Oh Rodney you plonker
November 11, 2015
A fun beginner reader book about dad getting an exercise bike for his birthday.
Good early words.
Good early words.
January 13, 2015
This simple story is an account a family celebrating their dad's birthday. Things don’t go as smoothly as expected, with dad getting over excited and falling off the bike, and the family dog seizing the golden opportunity to run away with the birthday cake.
The book contains very simple words which children are familiar with. The pictures are an excellent aid to telling the story, this will give young children the confidence they need to help them build on their vocabulary. The pictures are also very entertaining which adds to the appeal of the book.
When my children were growing up I purchased the whole series as recommended by a friend. Read at Home series is designed for young readers for usage in school and at home. It is an excellent resource for parents to have at home to give children that extra support they may need.
The length of the story and the number of words increases with each level. As children are very familiar with the characters in the story they love to read them over and over again. I have witnessed my daughter reading this book to her doll to as it was read to her.
Towards the end of the book, there is a page with questions written in captions titled ‘Think about the story’ these pre- prepared questions help the adult to prompt the child into talking about the story.
I will recommend this book for Reception and year 1 it is an excellent resource to use with young children to introduce them to the idea of celebration. I.e. the different types of celebration we have, some are personal and celebrated at home for example marriage. At school we may celebrate class attendance. This will motivate children to attend every day.
Children can write/draw an account of what they did during a celebration. Perhaps talk about what they ate, what they wore and what they did.
The book contains very simple words which children are familiar with. The pictures are an excellent aid to telling the story, this will give young children the confidence they need to help them build on their vocabulary. The pictures are also very entertaining which adds to the appeal of the book.
When my children were growing up I purchased the whole series as recommended by a friend. Read at Home series is designed for young readers for usage in school and at home. It is an excellent resource for parents to have at home to give children that extra support they may need.
The length of the story and the number of words increases with each level. As children are very familiar with the characters in the story they love to read them over and over again. I have witnessed my daughter reading this book to her doll to as it was read to her.
Towards the end of the book, there is a page with questions written in captions titled ‘Think about the story’ these pre- prepared questions help the adult to prompt the child into talking about the story.
I will recommend this book for Reception and year 1 it is an excellent resource to use with young children to introduce them to the idea of celebration. I.e. the different types of celebration we have, some are personal and celebrated at home for example marriage. At school we may celebrate class attendance. This will motivate children to attend every day.
Children can write/draw an account of what they did during a celebration. Perhaps talk about what they ate, what they wore and what they did.
May 23, 2013
Read this easily, just struggled on one word - was
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