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Oxford Reading Tree

Inspiring a love of reading in every child

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The reading journey with Oxford Reading Tree

Oxford Reading Tree is a trusted collection of engaging fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. Our extensive reading collection provides a variety of writing styles, genres, and artwork, and has taught over 30 million children how to read and to love to read.

All books are underpinned by Oxford Reading Levels to ensure children are reading books with the right level of support or challenge to build confidence, develop comprehension skills and foster a lifelong love of reading.

The series has a structured, rigorous synthetic phonics programme for early readers, includes our most popular character series - Biff, Chip, and Kipper and lots more besides. Including Word Sparks combining fully decodable texts with high-impact vocabulary, Traditional Tales, inFact non-fiction and more.

Supports a range of curricula - including the OIC, ENC and Cambridge Primary curriculum framework
Teach phonics - using systematic phonics resources and training that really work
Practise phonics - with more decodable readers than any other reading programme
Bridge the gap - with support for the transition from phonics into richer reading
Richer reading - through a huge selection of stories with children's best-loved characters
Make progress - through careful levelling
Teacher training - free and in-school training built specifically for the international classroom
Support parents - with detailed inside cover notes in every title

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Series contains:

48 phonics teaching books
Over 170 decodable books for phonics
Over 280 Biff, Chip and Kipper adventures for a rich reading experience
Traditional Tales from around the world
Fiction, non-fiction and poetry
Simple, intuitive software
Teaching support integrated throughout

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See Oxford Reading Tree in action

See Floppy's Phonics Teaching Programme in action (Video)

Find out why St Patricks Catholic Primary uses Oxford Reading Tree

East Park Primary Wolverhampton (Video)

See why East Park Primary loves Oxford Reading Tree

Sonning Common Primary School (Video)

Find out why Sonning Common Primary uses Oxford Reading Tree

Woodstock Primary School (Video)

Find out why Woodstock Primary loves Oxford Reading Tree

Find your way around Oxford Reading Tree

Literacy classroom series poster (PDF)

Discover which Oxford Reading Tree series support your literacy classroom needs.

Oxford Reading Levels Explained

See an in-depth overview of each Oxford Reading Level

Based outside the UK?

Find guidance and support on using Oxford Reading Levels here.

Pupil Reading Record

Download this class reading record for a full list of Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops titles, with Oxford Levels and Book Bands, that your infants and juniors can fill in as they progress through the series.

Oxford Owl

Find out more about the support for Oxford Reading Tree on Oxford Owl

Effective assessment in Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops

Read how Oxford Reading Tree and TreeTops raises standards by connecting high quality assessment with effective teaching

Find the perfect read (PDF)

Download your interactive curriculum matching chart for Oxford Reading Tree inFact

See Oxford Reading Tree being used in classrooms around the world

See the free videos here.

What does Oxford Reading Tree include?

Traditional Tales

Timeless stories from around the world, perfect for international students. All books are fully decodable with clear phonic progression.

Floppy's Phonics

For rigorous synthetic phonics teaching

Floppy's Phonics Fiction and Non-fiction

A series of fully decodable titles to help children practise phonics with their favourite characters

Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper

Topic-linked fiction and non-fiction to support your wider curriculum

Biff, Chip and Kipper stories - decode and develop

A bridge from Phonics into Richer Reading

Smooth the transition from phonics into richer reading

Story Sparks

Stories to fire the imagination and develop comprehension skills

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories

This best-loved character series inspires children and helps them to develop as independent readers

inFact

Inspire, inform and intrigue your children with powerful non-fiction

All Stars Fiction

Ensure your higher level readers reach their potential!

Songbirds Phonics

Written by best selling author of The Gruffalo and children's laureate, Julia Donaldson

Professional development

Boost your storytelling skills: Practical techniques to use in the classroom

Webinar: Boost your storytelling skills

Join professional storyteller Wendy Shearer in this engaging webinar that will demonstrate how to use storytelling as an inclusive activity to engage children, spark imagination and improve literacy.

Wednesday 13th November 2024, 11.30am to 12.30pm GMT

Webinar: Best Practice for Guided Reading

In this webinar recording, discover how to implement a successful Guided Reading programme in your classroom and boost reading fluency using Oxford Reading Tree, with headteacher and independent literacy consultant Heather French.

Review

Children are highly motivated to develop their reading and progress to the next level of books. They are challenged by extended text and length without realising as they are engaged in the story.

Jacqueline Sharrock, KS1 Teacher and Literacy Co-ordinator, St Bedes College, Manchester.