The Raft Race (Read at Home Level 3b)

Book Description
Wilf and Wilma’s Mum and Dad join a Raft Race and struggle as their rafts disintegrate but who will win the race?

Product Description
Read at Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children’s reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout. The Raft Race is Level 3a for children Becoming a Reader – those children who can recognize 10-20 words by sight, can read simple sentences, and know all the initial letter sounds. The story is written with a simple sentence structure and vocabulary repetition with two to three sentences per page. Stories provide clear parental support within and beyond the book: BLa ‘Tips for Reading Together’ page, giving parents practical ideas for helping with their child’s reading BLa ‘Think about the Story’ page providing stimulating ideas for parents to talk about with children when they are discussing the story BLa ‘Useful common words’ panel to highlight high frequency words used in the story which have a close correlation with the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy. This book is at the same reading level as The The Real Floppy Approx ORT level: Stage 3