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Product DescriptionStage 3 More Songbirds are six brand new decidable phonic stories to add to the popular Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics series. They are real stories written by the best-selling author of The Gruffulo, Julia Donaldson. All the stories support the latest phonics curriculum developments.The Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics series provides:* fully decodeable texts that build on pupils' phonic knowledge as they work through the 6 stages* opportunities for segmenting, blending and matching sounds and letter blends* lively illustrations by a variety of artists* flexible activities that can be tailored to your phonic teaching* exciting, interactive CD-ROMs to accompany all stagesThe six books revise all phonics previously covered in Songbirds Stages 1+, 2 and 3, and introduce one long vowel phoneme (sound) per title.* Ron Rabbit's Big Day ('ee' as in see)* The Wishing Elf ('ie' as in tie)* Bob Bug and the Insect Club ('oa' as in boat)* Where is the Snail? ('ai' as in rain)* Stop Chatting Bill ('oo' as in soon)* Back to Bed ('oo' as in good)Review`An excellent full range of phonic usage for these stages of text. I feel children would benefit immensely from the scheme.'St Nicholas Primary School, Oxford`What a lovely way of showing the relation of text to words in a story!'Literacy Teacher, OxfordshireAbout the AuthorJulia Donaldson has written over forty books, including the extremely popular picture book The Gruffalo, which won three major British book awards: The Smarties Prize, The Blue Peter Award for `The Best Book to Read Aloud and the Experian `Big Three Award.