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Oxford Reading Tree Range and Progression
BEGINNER READERS
Stages 1-3 concentrate on enriching language and developing the early literacy
skills that children need to achieve reading readiness and go on to become competent
readers.
The resources introduce children to a range of text types: stories, information
books, poetry and rhymes, as well as extensive support. These have been designed
to:
- encourage children to talk and make links to their own experiences
- develop listening skills
- enable children to make the link between text and pictures
- develop an understanding of text and how it behaves
- support the prediction of meaning
- introduce the main Reading Tree characters with whom children can identify
- foster early phonological awareness and introduce rhyme and initial phonemes
- introduce the first high frequency key words
- teach early book-handling skills
- initiate early writing skills
Patterned Stories for reinforcement
First Phonics practise phonics in context
Sparrows for consolidation
Fireflies Non-fiction
BECOMING FLUENT
Stages 4-5 consolidate the early language skills and develop reading
confidence, stamina and an increased range of strategies for reading. The
range of text types is expanded with stories which move from real life into
fantasy worlds, information books which cover a wider number of topics and
treatments, and poems and rhymes which are slightly more complex. These, and
the numerous teaching resources have been designed to:
- increase children’s confidence with longer texts and narratives moving
from one story to the next.
- offer more complex plots within the books
- provide opportunities for children to be reflective about their reading
- give practice in the use of different strategies for checking that reading
makes sense
- develop reading stamina
- offer a wider choice for independent reading
- support the use of phonological strategies in making analogies from one
word to another with a shared rhyming spelling pattern
- help children to become young researchers
Sparrows for consolidation reading
Woodpeckers for phonics
Fireflies Non-fiction
TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE
Stages 6-9 encourage further reading practice, increased reading stamina
and stimulate the imagination with motivational narrative and rhyming stories,
rich poetic language and magic adventures that foster reading for pleasure.
The information books also extend into a wider sphere and expose children
to an increased number of text types. The books at this level, with their
teaching support, have been designed to:
- develop children’s insights into feelings and motivation of characters
- expand children’s vocabulary through fiction and non-fiction
- enhance opportunities for creative writing
- be read with enjoyment, expression, fluency, accuracy and understanding
- support an increased numbers of strategies in reading
- help children to read between the lines and make predictions and inferences
which are not directly stated.
- help children cope with more complex language structures, language patterns,
and ideas
- to make the differences between fiction and non-fiction totally explicit
- to turn children into fully confident and independent young readers.
Robins for extension reading
Jackdaws for extension reading
Fireflies Non-fiction
Oxford Reading Tree True Stories
Oxford Reading Tree Citizenship Stories
TREETOPS
Stages 10-16
TreeTops have been designed to:
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