A collection of twelve lively stories with regular, repeated word sounds that are hugely appealing to children learning their first words. Very simple text encourages reading, helping children to sound out individual letters, then blend them together to make whole words. Contains a listen-along CD that brings the stories to life with charming readings. This book contains recently updated editions of the following Usborne titles: Big pig on a dig, Fat cat on a mat, Fox on a box, Frog on a log, Goose on the loose, Hen's pens, Mouse moves house, Sam sheep can't sleep, Shark in the park, Ted in a red bed, Ted's shed and Toad makes a road.
This book proposes an amusing game of counting and tales.
Originally published: London: Usborne, 2001.
This funny rhyming story starring a big orange tabby cat helps kids learn to read! Fat Cat Sat on the Mat is a proven winner—welcome at home or in the classroom—as it makes kids laugh. The fat cat sat on the mat.
Suitable for reading aloud or beginner readers. Guidance notes at the back explain how parents can help their children get the most out of this book.
Toad moves into a new house on top of a hill, but no one can get to it until she builds a road leading to her house.
Presents the adventures of Ted the bear and his friends as they build a shed, make a road, and wake up and go to sleep.
Two titles in the Cautionary Tales series, which help young children to understand and discuss key moral issues. Repetitive phrases and rhythmic text encourage children to participate in the story. Amusingly illustrated by Jan McCafferty.
Synthetic phonic learning is the process of reading by sounding the individual sounds of a word and then blending them together to read the word as a whole.
SUMMARY: The shocking, funny yet satisfying Danish folktale of the little cat who ate the gruel he was watching over, the pot, and the old woman and in fact everyone he met. He got fatter and fatter, and then he met the woodcutter.
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