Short description
Biff, Chip, Kipper, Mum and Dad all try to pull up the old stump but Floppy saves the day. Part of a series designed for young, beginner readers, this work is of Level 3, which corresponds roughly to ORT stage 3-4. It features vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. It helps parents to support their children's reading at home.
Long description
Biff, Chip, Kipper, Mum and Dad all try to pull up the old stump but Floppy saves the day. 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. The Old Tree Stump is for children becoming a reader - those children who can recognize 10-20 words by sight, can read simple sentences, and know all the initial letter sounds. The story is written with a simple sentence structure and vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. Level 3 corresponds roughly to ORT stage 3-4.
Review
The series was fully endorsed in research carried out in parental focus groups.