Read with Oxford: Stage 2: Julia Donaldson's Songbirds: Singing Dad and Other...

I bought this for my 4 year old granddaughter who started school last September, and is learning to read. I sent her the level one book last year and she started reading it straightaway. I decided to get the second stage when she came to,stay for half term. Julian Donaldson’s stories are tailored to,early readers, and the stories are just as entertaining as her other books. A wonderful way to help first readers.

This is an bright, fun, easy to read book. It has a 6 different stories in it so you can do a new one each day without it getting repetitive. Each one will last 5-15 minutes, depending on reading speed. Good mixture of harder words. Bright pictures to make them interesting. The stories have to be simple but are interesting enough to keep attention. Just make sure you get the book for the correct level of reading.

This book is just perfect for reception children who are learning to read. It covers most phonics in phase 3. The sentences are short and easy to follow for the little ones. I recommend it for end of Autumn term and begin of Spring one. Songbirds were recorded to us by reception teacher and it is just spot on. Although if your child is a fast learner and can coupe with long sentences then Ron Rabbit's Eggs might be better choice. To get a feel for it I recommend to go to Oxford Reading Owl website and have a look at free ebook Ron Rabbit's Eggs.

Dad is singing contains a few different stories,Thank you, my grandson and I loved to read it

My review couldn’t be submitted for some reason so I am re-submitting. Overpriced at £8 - education should be affordable so every child can get the right opportunity to exceed in life. If it wasn’t for Covid times, I would have looked to get it from charity shops. This is a good resource though and like everyone has mentioned stories are good and pictures bright and nice.

Truly a phonics reading book, unlike most of the other Oxford readers which at each stage include too many words that kids of that stage have not yet learned to decode. Somehow, despite limiting the vocabulary in that way, Julia Donaldson has still managed to create stories that are genuinely interesting and engaging for readers! Songbirds is far and away the best reading series I have seen for anyone learning to read by synthetic phonics.

Wonderful book, perfect for my 5 year old. She has had some trouble with her reading as her school books are a bit boring but these stories are so engaging and fun that she now reads them by herself to her toys and asks to read them to us at bedtime!

I'd stumbled across Level 1 and found it very good. Small stories, good size of text and good repetition of words - since I've bought level 2 and 3 and find them great for the same reasons. Will continue to purchase these books at higher levels as my daughter finishes each level.

This is a good book for starting readers. Very nice pictures also and my son loves this book also I got the stage 1 and the other stage 2 book the skunk and the trunk.

My first child started reading with these books 2 years ago. She picked up the short sentence right away and began quickly reading with confidence right away. She loved and enjoyed all the books from these series. We have used stage 1-3 so far with her along with the activity books. Bob bug has been her favourite even after 2 years she enjoys reading them to her younger brother. Best investment for the children to begin their reading journey especially with lots of confidence because it starts off very simple. Now my son has started his reading journey and has already started reading few sentences. He’s enjoying it just like my daughter. They both love reading the books series together. Best for the family and for new readers. I have recommended these series to many friends who have young children.

Good book .. few words of slang.. buzz off bill. Learnt new word 'fusspot'.

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Great collection of stories s