This work features activities supporting Level 1 stories, but which can be used on their own, combining fun activity types and a lively modern look with practice in basic reading skills of matching, writing, sequencing stories by putting events in the right order, dot-to-dot for alphabetical order, word search for character names, predicting what will happen next, etc. Each page contains a simple instruction that can be read by the child on their own or child + parent, as well as tips for parents at the foot of the page explaining why the activity is helpful in supporting early reading. Fun reward stickers with the Read at Home characters are included.

 

This book is part of a book series called Read At Home .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Oxford University Press .

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. Kate Ruttle is a SENCO and Key Practitioner for Inclusion & Literacy in Suffolk. She has written many standardised tests for Hodder.