Book details
At the Hairdresser (Read at Home: First Experiences)
Published in
2007
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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 written for parents to support their children's reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations and are ideal for parent and child to read together.
Read At Home First Experiences help parents to:
BLExplore the wider world with their child
BLTalk about shared feelings and emotions
BLBuild vocabulary through the fun activities
RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home. Level 4 is for children Building Confidence in Reading - those children who can recognise 30-50 words by sight, can read harder sentences, with less support, and can use sounds to help make words. The story is written with simple but more varied sentence structure and vocabulary with three to four sentences per page.
Each story provides a range of fun activities to encourage talk and support reading skills:
BLA puzzle activity in every book to make reading fun and practise looking at detail
BLA game or fun activity like a Maze or Spot the Difference - a treat for children to enjoy at the end of the story
Highly successful , high profile author and illustrator team:
BLRoderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Annemarie Young, are superb storytellers with over 50 years educational experience between them
BLAlex Brychta's humorous and detailed illustrations bring the stories alive and are known to and loved by millions of Oxford Reading Tree readers
Age
4-8
Text complexity
emerging
Length
32 pages
Book in series
#5
Why to read
- Familiarizes Children with Routine Experiences: 'At the Hairdresser' helps young readers understand and become comfortable with the common experience of going to the hairdresser, making it less intimidating and more enjoyable.
- Develops Reading Skills: As part of the 'Read at Home: First Experiences' series, this book is designed to support early readers in developing their literacy skills through engaging stories and simple, repetitive vocabulary.
- Encourages Parent-Child Interaction: Reading this book together allows parents to discuss the hairdressing experience with their children, answer questions, and share personal stories, fostering a closer bond and communication.
- Illustrations Enhance Understanding: The book's colorful and detailed illustrations provide visual context to the story, helping children to better grasp the narrative and relate it to their own experiences at the hairdresser.