The original intention of this graded reading series is aimed at children whose mother tongue is English, which matches their acceptance and understanding ability. It is also based on the daily living environment of British children, so that children can learn English pronunciation, vocabulary, sentence patterns and tenses in a relaxed, happy and natural atmosphere. Today, more than 130 countries around the world have used it as a teaching material for children to learn English, and even many international schools in China are using it.
Oxford Reading Tree has authentic language, interesting content and strong readability, which is very suitable for parent-child reading and early childhood enlightenment.
The Oxford reading tree system is very huge, including home reading series, tree stage1-1,all-star series and so on. The imported version in China is model English, which is basically published according to the original classification and system of reading tree, and a point-reading version has been published recently. The Li Sheng series of FLTRP also originated from Oxford Reading Tree, but another system was constructed, including Li Sheng Spelling Story Club, Li Sheng Classic Story House, Li Sheng Adventure Story Island and Li Sheng Encyclopedia Kaleidoscope. It is really like a name, like a reading tree.
Faced with such a huge amount of reading materials, many parents always don't know how to choose for their children. Even the parents who are reading this set of graded books are using it correctly? Come and learn about this set of graded books with teacher Mary!
1, let's see what the Oxford reading tree is made of.
The whole reading plan of The Oxford Reading Tree is divided into 16 stages, step by step, from pre-school wordless books to middle schools, including rhymes, stories, novels, biographies and common sense. Learning the Oxford Reading Tree is like climbing a tree, learning many authentic new words, grammar and British culture, and building children's confidence in learning English and enjoying reading.
If the Oxford reading tree is compared to a tree, then the Oxford tree is mainly composed of two parts-trunk and branches.
The above picture vividly depicts the relationship between the Oxford reading tree series. The main part is the main textbook of Oxford Reading Tree, and the branch part is the supplementary reading series.
Main textbooks: biff, chip &；; Pickled fish story
The main story, including stage 1 to 9, is the core of the whole reading plan, which runs through Kipper, Biff, Chip, dog flop, family and classmates. Stage 1 to 4 is a life story. In the fifth stage, Kipper gets a magic key, and the story enters a colorful fantasy. These stages are suitable for children aged 4-7.
10- 16 is an advanced reading series called treetop. Its main contents are 126 novels, 24 classics, 24 illustrated novels, 66 popular science books, 18 documentary stories and 18 adult Biff and Chip &；; Kip's historical adventure story through time and space (this part belongs to 10~ 12). This part is suitable for children aged 7- 1 1 year.
The imported version of the domestic main textbook praised English with a score of *** 10. Grade 1-6 is the main textbook of grade 1-9 mentioned above, and grade 7- 10 is the top part of the tree. However, Model English condensed dozens of short stories into a big book, resulting in many small pictures on each page. For children, reading is less interesting and has a strong learning intention, and children are generally not interested.
Supplementary reading series:
The voice of floppy disk (novel & non-fiction 1-6)
This part is the spelling of Oxford tree to assist reading training. Or about Biff, Chip &; The story of the Kipper family, but the content is independent of the main textbook. The data on official website is 66 books of Grade 6.
Traditional stories (1-9) (the domestic imported version is Li Sheng classic story house)
The main content of this series is 40 stories adapted from traditional classic stories all over the world. For example, radish pulling, tortoise and rabbit race, three goats and so on. The content is good and the level is reasonable, which is very suitable for graded auxiliary reading materials.
Snapdragon (grade 1- 10) (the domestic imported version is Li Shengmiao's English picture book)
This snapdragon series is adapted from stories created by top writers and illustrators. As an auxiliary reading book within the main textbook level of 10, there are 42 books in each level. The content of the story is good, and it is also very interesting as an auxiliary reading.
Firefly non-fiction (1- 10 level) (the domestic imported version is Li Sheng Extraordinary Encyclopedia)
This is a popular science series, called firefly series. Like the snapdragon series, it is also an auxiliary reading for the main textbook of 1- 10, with about 48 books per level.
Grade 10- 16 (there is no imported version in China at present)
Its main contents are 126 novels, 24 classics, 24 illustrated novels, 66 popular science books, 18 documentary stories and 18 adult Biff and Chip &；; Kip's historical adventure story travels through time and space and chronicles.
Sparrow (level 3-4)
Sparrow series is an auxiliary reading training for the main textbook level 3-4. From the content, it is a story about some different families, characters and scenes.
True story (level 8-9, 10- 1 1)
This set of true stories is mainly true historical stories and biographies, with 42 books in grades 8-9 and 42 books in10-1chapters.
Robin (grade 6- 10)
The characters in Robin's series of stories are all newly introduced, which are more complicated than the main textbook stories. They are divided into three parts, and each part has about 42 books.
Jack Dawes (level 8-1 1)
This series of works is rich in style, including novels, myths, legends, documentaries and so on. It is also divided into three parts, each part has 42 books. It should be noted that this series is more difficult and challenging for children than other reading materials at the same stage.
Project X code (1- 10 level) is an adventure story island.
This is a series of sci-fi adventure stories, with four primary school students with super powers as the main characters. More than 200 stories, including spelling knowledge, are suitable for children aged 4- 1 1.
Fireflies (grade 1- 1 1)
Firefly series is a poetry series, which is very suitable for children to feel the rhythm of English, and the theme is also very close to life. It is a good set of supplementary reading materials.
Reading and Biff, Chip & ampKipper (Reading Original Series at Home)
The Oxford Reading Tree originally read at home is for children to go home and read with their parents, because the Oxford Reading Tree is used as a teaching material in many schools in the United States. Therefore, reading at home in Oxford Reading Tree is equivalent to supporting extracurricular reading.
I can't find the items I read at home in official website, so I have upgraded to read them with biff, chip &; Kipper series.
All stars
This series is a high-level chapter book for children with learning ability. The stories in it are all famous works. The whole series * * *, 36 topics, no 12 words entitled a group, each group has 84 books, one * * *, 252 books. If your child's vocabulary accumulation is good, you can try to see this series after learning Level 7.
2. What's the difference between "home edition" and "school edition"?
According to the different use environment, the Oxford tree can be basically divided into family books and school books, namely "family edition" and "school edition", of which "school edition" is also called "point reading edition" in China and can be read directly with Kadik's Caterpillar point reading pen. In Britain, children use one set of Oxford trees at school, which is called the school edition, and another set of Oxford trees at home. The contents are not conflicting, but complementary.
home edition
This is the most common version on the market at present, which is read by biff, chip &; Pickled fish series readers.
This series includes 1-6 grades, 58 books (including 2 parents' reading guides); Suitable for parent-child interaction and help children learn natural spelling.
Appropriate age selection suggestions
1-3 grade: mainly cultivate children's reading interest, with small vocabulary and simple content.
Officially, the age of native English speakers is 4-5 years old, and the key point is to know words so as to read independently. In China, as a parent-child reading enlightenment books, I think it is ok to be 3 years old+.
Grade 4-6: The sentences in the reader are becoming more and more complicated, mainly to improve children's reading ability. Suitable for 5-8 years old.
School edition
Oxford Reading Tree, a series of books for schools, is a self-study textbook used by 80% public primary schools in Britain. The contents of the school edition and the family edition are not repeated, and the story of the school edition is richer. The content is designed according to the professional system to provide children with scientific and natural spelling learning.
The whole series of school edition includes 1-9 (including 1+), 10, and ***406 volumes. In fact, the whole set of school books is mainly divided into three levels, namely, natural spelling learning, natural spelling practice and rich extended reading. The whole system covers the complete learning stage of children from natural spelling to independent reading. More than 80% of primary schools in Britain use the Biff story series, which is the school version.
Natural spelling learning and practice
Oxford reading tree consists of seven groups 1~9. The natural spelling series is the most classic main series in the "Oxford Tree", focusing on learning the rules of natural spelling.
The "natural spelling method" establishes children's perception of the pronunciation rules by directly learning the pronunciation rules of 26 letters and letter combinations in words, and can quickly distinguish the words by pronunciation when they see new words, thus achieving the learning purpose of "reading and listening to spelling".
Reading age suitable for natural spelling
Level 1 Wordless book: 2-6 years old
L 1+~ 3: 3-8 years old
L4: 4-8 years old
L5: 5- 10 years old
L6 ~ 9: 6- 12 years old
Rich extended reading
This series has seven sets of 1~9 * * *. Extended reading is mainly short stories, which is more interesting. Present the daily life scenes of Biff, Chip and Kipper. Stories are interesting and sentences are simple and repetitive, which is the theme of real life.
Each book in the extended reading series has detailed parent-child reading guidance, the title page of each book has pre-reading guidance and reading guidance, and the last page of the book has post-reading discussion. Open-ended questions are helpful to parent-child interaction and cultivate children's English thinking.
Expand reading age
L 1 ~ L3: 3-8 years old, and a good foundation can also start from 2 years old+.
L4: 4-9 years old
L5: 5- 10 years old
L6: 6- 1 1 year
L7-9: 6- 12 years old
3. How to read the Oxford Reading Tree?
Faced with such a huge series of Oxford reading trees, some mothers who want to read with their babies but are not confident about their English may be old. After all, reading these hundreds of English books is a great test for most mothers.
Since it is graded reading, the first thing to consider is that it pays more attention to increasing difficulty and step by step than trivial daily dialogue and picture book input. Although the guidance of parents and teachers is needed in the early stage, the most important thing is to facilitate children's independent learning.
In the books of home reading system, each book contains two stories. When reading a story, parents refer to the text, and children can easily establish the connection between the text and the picture by looking at the picture. Parents can reread a story with their children repeatedly and make sure that they read it in a different way every time. The first time, children can be interested in this story first; The second time, you can gradually increase the English description; The third time, read aloud with the children. Of course, parents can also flexibly adjust their reading methods and progress according to their children's specific conditions.