Search for 'Read with Oxford' to find out more about an exciting NEW range of levelled readers for children aged 3-8 Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. As with all Read at Home books, the story ends with fun activities for parent and child to enjoy together. Floppy's Colours: The children paint a colourful picture for Gran. This story introduces children to a range of colours. Throughout the story a colour is introduced on the left-hand page, the child is asked to help Floppy find things of that colour in a wonderfully detailed illustration to help their recognition. The same colour then appears in the context of the story on the right-hand page. The questions and activities at the end of the story consolidate their learning and introduce the concept of mixing colours.

 

This book features in the following series: First Skills, Read At Home .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Oxford University Press .

Annemarie Young is an experienced editor and author of children's books, with a particular emphasis on writing stories to help children learn to read. Alex Brychta collaborated with Roderick Hunt on a series of children books for the Oxford Reading Tree which had an animated spin-off, The Magic Key series. In addition to Oxford Reading Tree, Brychta is also the illustrator of Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper (formerly Read at Home), the Wolf Hill series of books and the Time Chronicles series. He has also written and illustrated several children's books for J M Dent, Franklin Watts, and Oxford University Press. Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award at the Education Resources Awards 2009. Alex was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to children's literature. He now lives in Surrey with wife Dina whom he has two children with, Kelly Brychta and Dylan Brychta. Roderick Hunt started out as a teacher, but began writing for children in 1970. He collaborated with Alex Brychta on a series of children books for the Oxford Reading Tree which had an animated spin-off, The Magic Key series. Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award at the Education Resources Awards 2009. Now he says, "On my income tax form I put down my profession as storyteller. It never fails to raise an eyebrow. " He lives in London.