Oxford Reading Tree Level 5: Stories: The Magic Key

Description

Inspiring a love of reading in every child

Oxford Reading Tree is a trusted collection of engaging fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. Our extensive reading collection provides a variety of writing styles, genres, and artwork, and has taught over 30 million children how to read and to love to read.

All books are underpinned by Oxford Reading Levels to ensure children are reading books with the right level of support or challenge to build confidence, develop comprehension skills and foster a lifelong love of reading.

The series has a structured, rigorous synthetic phonics programme for early readers, includes our most popular character series – Biff, Chip, and Kipper and lots more besides. Including Word Sparks combining fully decodable texts with high-impact vocabulary, Traditional Tales, inFact non-fiction and more Variety Fiction.

Taught over 30 million children how to read and to love to read

• Extensive collection for young readers provides a variety of writing styles, genres and artwork preferences at every level
• Underpinned by Oxford Reading Levels to ensure children are reading books with the right level of support or challenge to build confidence, develop skills and foster a lifelong love of reading
• Includes the most popular character series – Biff, Chip and Kipper and a structured, rigorous synthetic phonics programme for teaching children to read with their favourite characters

The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories provide humorous storylines to engage and motivate children.

The popular characters and familiar settings are brought to life by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. The stories are unchanged from the previous edition but the cover notes have been updated to support adults in sharing the story with the child.

Authors Biography

Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta are the creators, author and illustrator of the much-loved Oxford Reading Tree series and are two of the most experienced and successful reading scheme creators in the world. They have worked together for 25 years creating and developing a winning formula that is universally known in more than 120 countries. Roderick Hunt writes all his stories to make sure something interesting happens in every one, no matter how short. This paired with Alex Brychta’s detailed illustrations ensure that children enjoy every story. Observant readers will find plenty of visual jokes and details guaranteed to delight – adults will find even more!

In 2008, Roderick Hunt received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to education, particularly literacy. This was followed by further success when Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award at the Education Resources Awards 2009.