Supporting your early reading success
Our teaching resources will help you get the best out of your children and will ensure every reading need is covered.
Teachers
You'll find comprehensive Teaching Handbooks, Activity Sheets, CD-ROM resources and a wealth of online information to support you. With free Group/Guided Reading Notes included with every pack we're helping you every step of the way. Our new edition Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters is a thorough and rigorous teaching and practice programme and provides all the Teaching resources you need to teach Letters and Sounds.
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Other Useful Links
- Individual Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops titles matched to Book Band (pdf 358kb)
- Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops Reading Record list (pdf 224kb) If you would like to receive a word version of this, email Katharine Venters to request one.
- Oxford Reading Tree Reading Ages
Free Downloadables
Click on the following links to download some goodies for use in the classroom or at home.- Wallpapers - to download onto your PC or MAC or simply to use as wrapping paper!
- Clown and Floppy
- Chip as a Cowboy
- Biff Skipping
- Biff in the Snow
Scotland and other curricula
Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops are well designed to fulfil the requirements of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish curricula.
Download our guide matching Oxford Reading Tree to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence:
Additional support for comprehension within the Scottish curriculum can be found here
Meet our User Schools
Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops have been used in huge number of primary schools with great success.
It may help you either to decide to start using Oxford Reading Tree or TreeTops, or to continue to invest in this fantastic teaching resource, if you see how other schools have benefited from these invaluable reading programmes.
- Contact a UK school which uses Oxford Reading Tree or TreeTops
- Read testimonials from schools who use Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops
- Find out more about Floppy's International Adventure
Parents and Carers
To help you as a parent or carer understand Oxford Reading Tree, this section is dedicated to you and how you can help develop your child's reading skills.
Oxford Owl is a free website, created with teachers and parents and is packed full of practical advice and support, including:
- 250 FREE eBooks to bring children's favourite books to life
- Phonics guide for parents (including how to say the sounds correctly)
- Ideas for motivating boys to read
- Great ways to keep up with reading in the holidays
- Fun reading games and activities
To download your own Oxford Owl logo and parent sheets, click here for more information. Alternatively, visit our Oxford Owl website.
- At home with Oxford Reading Tree - Download this FREE guide for parents and carers
- Read At Home - To support your child's learning with Oxford Reading Tree, take a look at the Read at Home titles
- Children's Pages - A dedicated children's page designed for you to explore and enjoy!
Authors and Illustrators
We are proud to boast that Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops books and other resources are written by top and award-winning authors and artists.
Series creators of Oxford Reading Tree, Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta
Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta have developed a winning formula for Oxford Reading Tree so that Biff, Chip and Kipper stories captivate both children and adults alike.
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!
Visit Alex and Rod's Oxford Reading Tree pages.
Julia Donaldson – best-selling author of 'The Gruffalo' and Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds
Julia Donaldson was born and raised in North London. She wrote songs for children's television for many years, and during this time one of her songs became the best-selling book 'A Squash and a Squeeze'.
This marked the beginning of her hugely successful career writing children's books - including the much-loved story 'The Gruffalo'.
Find out more about Julia Donaldson, the author of our popular Songbirds Phonics decodable stories, by visiting her Oxford Reading Tree page.
With great authors such as...
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...and many more, we are frankly proud of the high-calibre of those that are the heart and soul of Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops.
All Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops materials are written to an extremely high-standard and benefit from the expertise of classroom teachers and literacy consultants.
