Oxford Reading Tree series books are children's graded books published by Oxford University Press, which are well-known in Britain and are one of the most used books in primary schools. In almost every school's small library, there will be a whole set of Oxford reading tree books for children to borrow. Since my daughter went to preschool in England, I read this series of books borrowed from school with her every day until she started reading big books (that is, she graduated from Oxford Reading Tree Series). At the same time, I used to be a volunteer in my daughter's school, mainly to help teachers accompany the children in the class to study. Here, I will talk about my experience in using the Oxford Reading Tree series books, combining my "accompanying reading" experience at home and at school.

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The biggest feature of Oxford reading tree series is coherence. Reading these books is like watching a wonderful TV series. After watching episode after episode, I couldn't put it down. You won't give up until you finish it, which is what we often say. The stories in these books are very close to life, and sometimes they are like telling their own travel experiences. But these stories are not limited to the trivial matters of daily life, but also mixed with imagination, so there are a series of fantasy stories (time travel) triggered by magic keys. Another reason why people can't get tired of reading is that even fantasy stories can enlighten children, and at the same time, they can learn a lot of historical knowledge (such as the life and historical background of Victorian people in Britain), understand poetry genres, and have a lot of archaeological knowledge.

The Oxford reading tree series is like a family telling a story to everyone. This family is the protagonist Biff, Chip, Kipper, mom and dad in the whole series. They can't forget their lovely puppy Floppy. The story on the Oxford Reading Tree revolves around their families and their friends, and introduces all aspects of their life activities: going swimming, going to the beach, making a snowman, children playing various games together and so on.

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The reading level of Oxford reading tree series is divided into 16 stages, from the first stage (1 stage) to 16 stage (16 stage). The stage of the whole series is like climbing a big tree, step by step, which is also the origin of the name of the series (Oxford reading tree)

The series from 1 to 1 1 is called a reading tree. When children's reading level reaches 1 1, they should be able to read story books, newspapers, poems and so on confidently and smoothly. From the level of 12, the name of the series was changed to the top of the tree (from 12 to 16), which means that the level of children has reached the top of the tree. The next step is to read more books on the top of the tree to expand your vocabulary and knowledge.

The grading standard of Oxford Reading Tree series is mainly defined according to the national curriculum of primary English courses formulated by British countries. For example, books at the first level of the Oxford Reading Tree (stage 1) are equivalent to the basic stage of the national curriculum, that is, 1 level; There are also some books in stage 1+, which is equivalent to the second level of the national curriculum standard. This stage is mainly to cultivate children's listening and speaking ability and picture reading ability, so story books at this stage usually have few words, and some even have no words, only pictures. The picture above shows the wordless book At School (), which is selected from the first level of the Oxford Reading Tree (stage 1) and is suitable for children aged 4 to 5 in Britain.

In addition, the Oxford Reading Tree series has extended stories at each stage, which are designed for children who are slightly slower in progress. Some children have finished reading all the main planned books at this stage, but they have not reached the level of entering the next stage, or they are not confident enough or fluent enough to read some other books at the same stage, such as the sparrow series of level 3 or level 4, the robin series after level 5 and so on.

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Oxford reading tree series books are reading plans designed by educational experts and language experts, which are called structured methods. The stories in these series of books are all in simple language, and the simplicity here is said from two levels: first, from phonetics, from simplicity to complexity; Second, vocabulary is also from easy to difficult. Because the Oxford Reading Tree series was originally written for children whose mother tongue is English, the language here is simple, which means that most of the words in these stories are often encountered in daily life, and their pronunciation is also commonly used in their spoken language, which is generally easy to pronounce.

These series of books all adopt the concept of "keywords", that is to say, each book or story has one or more "keywords/words" that need to be practiced or learned, and the keywords/words that need to be mastered at each stage generally appear repeatedly in each book or story at this stage, and slowly, children will recognize and read these keywords or words. Parents or teachers will pay special attention to these keywords when guiding their children to read and help them practice consolidation. For example, book stage 1 has some keywords (flowers, eggs, milk, butter). By reading this book, children not only learned the English words of the names of these raw materials, but also learned how to make omelets, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

While learning keywords/words, you can also improve your child's oral pronunciation ability, the ability to associate words with pictures, the ability to understand and master the structural characteristics of stories, the ability to predict the content of stories, and the ability to repeat the stories you read in your own language (not only practicing memory, but also practicing the logical thinking ability of making up the story order). For children at the beginning of primary school, it is more important to help them consolidate the pronunciation and syllables that the teacher has already said.

Each stage of the Oxford Reading Tree series has a teacher resource book, which summarizes the teaching objectives of reading in each stage, including the key words that students need to master, the understanding goals that students need to achieve, and so on. At the same time, it also gives the corresponding national standards for primary school curriculum teaching, which provides a good basis for teachers to choose books.

Parents need to remember that the Oxford Reading Tree series books have their own reading plans, and parents can also use other reading methods to guide and help their children in their reading process.

In addition, if you need to buy the Oxford Reading Tree series, you can click "Read the original" or go to Dangdang, Amazon, JD.COM and other places to find the required series of books (note that the Li Sheng series is an imported version, so Dangdang is not complete, but there are some good spell books).

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