Books by Paul Shipton

Book SynopsisBiff gets too hot in Too Hot.An exciting new set of Level 1+ stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. Full of humour and drama with familiar settings and real-life scenarios that children can relate to that will delight young readers. Featuring all your favourite characters, children will enjoy exploring the detailed humorous illustrations and be captivated by the storylines.These phonics-based stories are perfect for embedding and building on children''s phonics knowledge. They contain high-interest vocabulary to support language development.Each book contains inside cover notes to help adults read and explore the content with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development. Free teaching notes on Oxford Owl support independent reading, guided reading, writing, and speaking, listening and drama activities.

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Book SynopsisIn Hush! Dad wants to have a nap. Can he?An exciting new set of Level 2 stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. Full of humour and drama with familiar settings and real-life scenarios that children can relate to that will delight young readers. Featuring all your favourite characters, children will enjoy exploring the detailed humorous illustrations and be captivated by the storylines.These phonics-based stories are perfect for embedding and building on children''s phonics knowledge. They contain high-interest vocabulary to support language development.Each book contains inside cover notes to help adults read and explore the content with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development. Free teaching notes on Oxford Owl support independent reading, guided reading, writing, and speaking, listening and drama activities.

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Book SynopsisBiff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some new friends for Biff, Chip and Kipper. They also support children''s transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy''s Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Each Mixed Pack includes one of each of the Level 4 titles. The Class Pack includes six of each of the Level 4 titles.

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Book SynopsisBiff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some new friends for Biff, Chip and Kipper. They also support children''s transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy''s Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Each Mixed Pack includes one of each of the Level 5 titles. The Class Pack includes six of each of the Level 5 titles.

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Book SynopsisBiff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some new friends for Biff, Chip and Kipper. They also support children''s transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy''s Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Each Mixed Pack includes one of each of the Level 5 titles. The Class Pack includes six of each of the Level 5 titles.

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Book SynopsisBiff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some new friends for Biff, Chip and Kipper. They also support children''s transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy''s Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Each Mixed Pack includes one of each of the Level 5 titles. The Class Pack includes six of each of the Level 5 titles.

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Book SynopsisMum wants to take a photo of the sunset in A Picnic at Sunset. But where is the camera? The non-fiction book that accompanies this title is At Sunset.Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 1+, which are phonically decodable featuring a small number of pre-taught, non-decodable topic words to enrich the texts and support language development. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.

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Book SynopsisTopic-linked pairs of engaging character stories and compelling non-fiction books at Level 7. Perfect for deepening reading comprehension.This pack contains 6 books, one copy of: A Mammoth Task, Extinct Giants, The Lightning Key, Safe in a Storm, Survival in the Arctic, What Do We Need to Survive?.

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Book SynopsisIn The Cowboy Next Door, Jenny and Lucas live next door to Mr Perkins. Mr Perkins is mad about TV and pretends to be a film character. Luckily Lucas and Jenny like having a cowboy next door!TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

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Book SynopsisIn Billy''s Luck Joel and Alex play for the hopeless Beaver Road Juniors. Joel hopes that when the team''s new player, Billy, arrives their luck will turn. TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children''s reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

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Book SynopsisHave you ever wanted a way to make all your dreams come true? In I Wish, I Wish Debbie buys an old lamp for her mother''s birthday, a modern-day genie appears out of it - but will the genie be quite what Debbie expects?TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children''s reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

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Book SynopsisBiff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some new friends for Biff, Chip and Kipper. They also support children''s transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy''s Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Each Mixed Pack includes one of each of the Level 3 titles. The Class Pack includes six of each of the Level 3 titles.

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Book SynopsisBiff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some new friends for Biff, Chip and Kipper. They also support children''s transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy''s Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Each Mixed Pack includes one of each of the Level 3 titles. The Class Pack includes six of each of the Level 3 titles.

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Book SynopsisRapid Phonics is a literacy intervention which can be used with groups or individuals. Developed by Dr Marlynne Grant, Educational Psychologist, following extensive research, Rapid Phonics fiction and non-fiction titles are designed for pupils in Year 1 and above, who are having difficulties with phonics.

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Book SynopsisEngaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each stage of the Floppy''s Phonics teaching programme, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context.These fully decodable stories are 100% matched to the phonic progression of the Floppy''s Phonics teaching programme and provide a perfect fit with your phonics teaching - endorsed by phonics expert and trainer Debbie Hepplewhite. They consolidate taught GPCs at each stage of the programme, with one book covering two weeks of teaching, and can be used in class or as take-home readers. Support for parents and carers is provided on the inside cover notes.Levels 1+-2 consist of simple blending books and short texts. Levels 3-5 include 3 fiction (with one Biff, Chip and Kipper adventure) and 3 non-fiction per level.Biff, Chip and Kipper go on a camping trip for the weekend. What could go wrong?

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Book SynopsisWill and Cath think there's a monster in the garden. Mum tells them there isn't, but the children are about to bed proved right...

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Book SynopsisHippo wants to play on the see-saw. But who will play with him? In this humorous story a hippo wants to go on a see-saw, but no other animal is heavy enough to get hippo off the ground. It takes a group of animals to do it and in the end, it is a tiny mouse that makes the difference.Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.Text type - A story with a predictable structure and patterned language.Pages 14 and 15 feature a flow chart, an ideal opportunity to retell the story in sequence.

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Book SynopsisA simple information book depicting different activities: running, jumping, hanging, skating, creeping and swimming. Simple text accompanies photographs of animals performing each activity , alongside photographs of children acting out the same activity.Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.Text type A simple information book.The photographs are repeated on pages 14 and 15 with a one-word label to describe the activity for reinforcement.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

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Book SynopsisIt's lunchtime and the farmer's hungry, but his lunch box is empty! He turns to all the animals on his farm for help, the sheep, cows, horses and geese, but they are all being very secretive. Are they hiding his lunch, or a much bigger and better surprise? The delightful illustrations develop the text, providing lots of points for discussion.

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of Bug Club Phonics - the first synthetic phonics programme to bring together research-based teaching methods with 100% decodable books, CBeebies video, and an online reading world to give today’s children a firm, fun foundation in Phonics. In this Phase 5 (Set 20) Bug Club Phonics fiction book: The whirligigs go in search of food but they don't see the big, hungry bird ...

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of Bug Club Phonics - the first synthetic phonics programme to bring together research-based teaching methods with 100% decodable books, CBeebies video, and an online reading world to give today’s children a firm, fun foundation in Phonics. In this Phase 5 (Set 15) Phonics Bug non-fiction book: Steve and Hailey like sunny days. Do they like rainy days too?

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Book SynopsisRapid Phonics is a literacy intervention which can be used with groups or individuals. Developed by Dr Marlynne Grant, Educational Psychologist, following extensive research, Rapid Phonics fiction and non-fiction titles are designed for pupils in Year 1 and above, who are having difficulties with phonics.

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Book SynopsisRapid Phonics is a literacy intervention which can be used with groups or individuals. Developed by Dr Marlynne Grant, Educational Psychologist, following extensive research, Rapid Phonics fiction and non-fiction titles are designed for pupils in Year 1 and above, who are having difficulties with phonics.

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Book SynopsisRapid Phonics is a literacy intervention which can be used with groups or individuals. Developed by Dr Marlynne Grant, Educational Psychologist, following extensive research, Rapid Phonics fiction and non-fiction titles are designed for pupils in Year 1 and above, who are having difficulties with phonics.

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Book SynopsisRapid Phonics is a literacy intervention which can be used with groups or individuals. Developed by Dr Marlynne Grant, Educational Psychologist, following extensive research, Rapid Phonics fiction and non-fiction titles are designed for pupils in Year 1 and above, who are having difficulties with phonics.

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Book SynopsisGet ready to blast off! Find out about some real-life astronauts and their true space adventures, including Neil Armstrong and the first Moon landing. On the way you’ll discover what were the first living things in space, why it is so easy to jump on the Moon, and why you should never eat a sandwich (or drink a glass of water) in a space craft! True Space Adventures is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will love reading the exciting collection of fiction and non-fiction written by top authors. Inspire them to keep reading through gripping stories and fascinating information books packed with rich language and stunning artwork. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding.Reading age: 7-8 years

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Book SynopsisRapid Phonics is a literacy intervention which can be used with groups or individuals. Developed by Dr Marlynne Grant, Educational Psychologist, following extensive research, Rapid Phonics fiction and non-fiction titles are designed for pupils in Year 1 and above, who are having difficulties with phonics.

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Book SynopsisOxford Read and Imagine is a fiction series written for primary and pre-primary students. Young learners follow Rosie, Ben and Grandpa on their adventures and grow up with the characters as they read and learn. Listen while you read with the included audio CD.The van is broken, Grandpa is sick, there's something wrong with Clunk - and Rosie, Ben, and Max are lost in a desert! It's hot in the day and cold at night, and they don't have a lot ofwater. Can they find help?CEFR A1/A2Word count: 1,371

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Book Synopsis"Rigby Rocket" is designed to offer links from guided to independent reading. Each title contains notes specifically for parents/Learning Support Assistants, focusing on key reading skills. The "Orange Level" titles are aimed at children in Year 2.

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