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Six captivating and engaging stories with clear phonics progression, ideal for children who are growing in reading confidence. Join Tops and friends on a journey to meet the Dinosaur King, discover a planet made out of cake and find out what Snoot really, really wants for his birthday! With a variety of stunning artwork styles and six funny, heart-warming and exciting stories, this collection has something for everyone. The stories have been specially written to support and develop your child's growing reading skills as they start to read more words and longer sentences with less help. Activities after every story make reading fun and reinforce comprehension. Each collection also features tips for parents to help you support your child's developing reading skills. Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.Read with Oxford Stage 3 equates to Oxford Levels 4 and 5 used in schools. For more information about the Read with Oxford Stages, as well as practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress, go to readwithoxford.com. Let's get them flying!

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations and develop their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustrators broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. The titles at Oxford Levels 1+ to 5 are phonically decodable with some extra high-interest words to expand children's vocabularies and enrich the stories. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every reader to the right book.This pack contains six books, one of each of the following titles: Scoop's Ups and Downs, The Mummy Chase, Planet Cake, The Dinosaur King, The Lark and the Owl and Pip, Lop, Mip, Bop and the Stuck Star.

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations and develop their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustrators broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. The titles at Oxford Levels 1+ to 5 are phonically decodable with some extra high-interest words to expand children's vocabularies and enrich the stories. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every reader to the right book. This pack contains 36 books, six of each of the following titles: Scoop's Ups and Downs, The Mummy Chase, Planet Cake, The Dinosaur King, The Lark and the Owl and Pip, Lop, Mip, Bop and the Stuck Star.

The sky is falling down! So Tops sets off to tell the Dinosaur King.Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations and develop their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustrators broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. This story is one of six titles at Oxford Level 4, which are phonically decodable with some extra high-interest words to expand children's vocabularies and enrich the stories. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every reader to the right book.

Get active with different animals in the Fun Bunch.Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.

King Cole is trying to eat healthy. He invites Peter Pumpkin Eater, Jill Horner, and Humpty Dumpty to dine at his castle. Will his guests find something tasty to eat at his feast? With characters from well-known nursery rhymes, this picture book puts a fun spin on classic nursery rhymes. Written in verse, this book is ideal for guided reading and builds early literacy skills.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. This story is about Bella. She wants to help. How can Bella help everyone? Yellow Band books include longer story plots to support the development of inferential skills. There is more emphasis on learners' understanding through reading and less use of illustrations to show meaning. Longer sentences include a wider range of vocabulary while repetition is used for dramatic effect rather than to build high-frequency vocabulary. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Band Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction and non-fiction at Yellow Band including Stars, Little Tiger Hu Can Roar!, The Big City and Diego Fandango. Yellow Band books include longer story plots to support the development of inferential skills. There is more emphasis on learners' understanding through reading and less use of illustrations to show meaning. Longer sentences include a wider range of vocabulary while repetition is used for dramatic effect rather than to build high-frequency vocabulary.

Crack up at more than 800 funny jokes for kids about animals, pets, dinosaurs, birds, and bugs. Your friends and family will laugh out loud at these hilarious questions and answers, knock-knock jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, limericks, and puns. Why are ducks good at math? Because they have their own QUACKulators! You Quack Me Up featuresover 800 clean, family-friendly jokes;jokes centered on one of kids’ favorite topics: animals;a variety of joke formats;silly illustrations that add even more giggles; andquick and easy tips to teach kids how to write their own jokes.This hilarious joke book for children is perfect for5-to-11-year-olds;travel entertainment in the car, on a plane, and on family road trips;an easy white elephant gift, stocking stuffer, or birthday present;homeschool and classroom writing units; andimproving reading, critical thinking, and writing skills.

Check in to Hotel of the Gods - where mythical guests cause magical mayhem! A hilarious new series perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and David Solomons.When Atlas's parents get new jobs running a luxurious hotel he can't believe his luck. It sounds almost too good to be true . . .It is. The hotel has very unusual residents - ancient gods and goddesses, forgotten by humans who now worship TikTok celebrities. There's a water dragon in the swimming pool, an Egyptian cat goddess demanding treats, a Viking god throwing his magical hammer around the garden, and an Aztec god who thinks Atlas is a human sacrifice! When Atlas ventures into the basement, where the Greek god Hades lives, he accidentally unleashes a closet-full of mythical monsters - including a three-headed Hellhound! Can he get the monsters back into the basement before his parents lose their jobs?

Loki the Viking trickster god has checked into the hotel and he's ready to have some fun - at the other gods' expense! Epically hilarious, this series is perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and David Solomons.The Hotel of the Gods has a new guest! Loki, the Viking trickster god, has come to celebrate Midsummer at the hotel. Everyone is excited about the new arrival - apart from Loki's old rival, Thor. Atlas and his best friend Maui find Loki and his shape-shifting tricks hilarious at first. But when Loki's pranks go too far, Atlas knows he has to get the Viking god to leave before the Midsummer party is ruined. There's only room for one trickster god at the hotel, and a battle of pranks ensues. May the best trickster win!

Check in to Hotel of the Gods - where mythical guests cause magical mayhem! A hilarious choc-tastic adventure for readers aged 7+.When home-schooling becomes too much for Atlas's parents to handle, the gods and goddesses who live at hotel step in to educate Atlas and his sister. Suddenly, lessons are a lot more exciting, with Thor taking PE classes, Venus and Mars giving Latin lessons and Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess, teaching Maths. But the strictest teacher of all is Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec God of Knowledge . . . and chocolate. If Atlas doesn't impress him with an amazing creation at the end of term science fair, there's going to be a MELTDOWN!

Revenge of the mummy! Check in to Hotel of the Gods - where mythical guests cause magical mayhem! A hilarious illustrated adventure for readers aged 7+, featuring characters from world mythology.When the Bastet the cat goddess is summoned back to Egypt, Atlas and his friend Maui can't resist sneaking into her room. That's a big, BIG mistake. HUGE! Because they accidentally wake up a cursed mummy with an appetite for destruction! Not even the gods and goddesses who live at the hotel can defeat an enemy that's already dead. They need information, and the only way to get it is by sending in a spy. . . Atlas must go undercover and figure out what the mummy wants. But is this secret mission a one-way ticket to the Afterlife?