New site of interest to Primary School Teachers:
Oxford READING TREE
This Internet site will be of great interest to teachers, parents and those involved in teacher-training and developing literacy.
The site provides information on OUP's Oxford READING TREE, the most popular reading programme in the UK for primary school children.
Oxford READING TREE makes learning to read fun - every story is a delight and the pictures are full of detail and humour. The skill and imagination of the author, Roderick Hunt, and the key illustrator, Alex Brychta, mean that children really enjoy the stories - as do teachers and parents too!
AGE RANGE:
The programme is most widely used among 5-7 year olds, Infants in P1-P3 of the 5-14 Curriculum The programme also develops through the Treetops series to cover 8-11 year olds, P4-P7
A non-fiction element of the programme ("Fact Finders") includes a book on "Caring for our environment" which is a case study of Pumpherston Primary School near Edinburgh. It describes a school project in which the children set out to improve the local environment.
CONTENTS
Children will be delighted to see the Reading Tree characters (Kipper, Biff, Chip, Floppy, Wilf, Wilma, Adam, Yasmin etc.) appear on-screen in the many illustrations, all designed to load rapidly. The site consists of over 20 pages covering new stories and publications, sample pages of new materials, events, a national conference, teachers' tips on classroom use, schools which can offer advice, and the ordering of more information by e-mail.
(c) OUP. Author: Rod Hunt; Illustrator: Alex Brychta
