Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated stories written by best-selling author Julia Donaldson. The series contains a variety of storylines, rhyme, rhythm and genre ensuring there is something for every child to enjoy. The rich, patterned language in the stories is decodable making them perfect for children to practise their phonics. Songbirds Phonics can be used as a complete phonics programme, or theindividual books can be used for phonics practice alongside any other phonics programme.Level 6 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ar as in star, au as in August, ur as in fur, air as in hair, ear as in near, ure as in pure and soft g as in giant. These invaluable teaching notes featureflexible activities to suit your classroom needs. They contain guidance on group reading for all six of the Level 6 Songbirds Phonics titles: Tara's Party, Paula the Vet, Where Were You, Bert?, Clare and the Fair, The Deer and the Earwig, Jack and the Giants. They also include helpful tables of the focus phonics in each story, as well as extension activities that have been designed to improve children's language comprehension andword recognition.