Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics: Level 1+: Bob Bug Paperback – 5 July 2012

Excellent for my 4y daughter 👍

Very helpful...especially for granddaughter who needs extra help with her reading...

Overall I am pleased with my purchase. My daughter who can basically sound out simple, three-letter words was thrilled to be able to read a book all by herself. The stories are entertaining (sometimes laugh-out-loud funny), and the pictures are colourful and fun. To understand the stories completely you have to follow along with the pictures - probably unavoidable given the limited vocabulary. The vast majority of words in the stories are decodable (e.g. consonant-short vowel-consonant like "cat").I don't give the stories 5 stars because I don't like the fact that some use contractions, possessives, and irregular spellings (i.e. Zak and yuk -I wish they had called Zak Tim instead and spelled "yuk" as "yuck" since the "k" sound at the end of a simple word is usually spelled "ck" like sock, rack, lick, etc.). The contractions and possessives are unnecessary complications at this point."Bob Bug" and "Dig, Dig, Dig" are my husband and my favourites by far if you are only looking for a couple of stories.The "hardest" words in each story are as follows (the rest are totally decodable with short vowels):Top Cat: ISam's Pot:aBob Bug: is, a, has, hisDig, Dig, Dig: his, a, ofZak: betterMum Bug's Bag: has, a, her, holeCat Naps: a, it's, ofPen Fun: a, of, gives, the, to, hasBig Cod: a, Tim's, tugs,Pins and Pegs: was, Let's, pins, pegs, theIs It?: what, bug's, is, it's, Tim's,Mix,Mix, Mix: has, tins, of, lemon, melon, rubs, yuk,

very good xx

Great stuff recommended

A friend recommended this series to me and I must also say that I highly recommend them. My little boy soon got to grips with the words and is very attracted by the illustrations and on many re reads is now able to remember and read many of the words by himself. We love all of Julia Donaldsons stories and it is great that she has produced these too, great characters that make reading fun.

Nice book but to short and to experience for what you get €2