Fact Finders (for cross-curricular work – science, geography, citizenship)
Stages 1 to 10
KS1 / P1-3
Topic Starters – discussion books for early reading
All about us
Different homes
Our school
Family celebrations
Our clothes
Everyone is special
Unit A : Myself
Your amazing body
Our five senses
Keeping healthy
Clothes that protect us
Playing safely
All kinds of toys
Unit B : Families
All kinds of families
When Gran was a child
I came to Britain from Jamaica
I live in France
Getty ready for Eid
Christian family festivals
Unit C : Houses and homes
All kinds of homes
Houses around the world
Changes at home
Home of the future
Building a house
Build your own model house
More Unit A : Clothes
All kinds of clothes
Clothes for every season
Clothes around the world
Mind your clothes
Clothes long ago
Boots and shoes
More Unit B : People
People who help
Sprts and hobbies
Growing up
Nelson Mandela
Famous children
Entertainers
More Unit C : Schools
A day in the life of a teacher
Who works at your school ?
When Grandad was at school
Make a model of your school
Special kinds of schools
Schools around the world
Unit D : Food
What should you eat ?
Where did your lunch come from ?
A day in the life of a school cook
Ice-cream
Festival food
Amazing food facts
Unit E : Where people live
All kinds of places to live
A town at work
Different jobs in different places
Discovering Bath
Exploring where you live
Amazing places to live
Unit F : Our environment
Amazing environments
Caring for our environment
Playground detectives
Pollution
Protecting our wildlife
Stop wasting the world
UK prices :
Topic Starters; Unit A, B; More Unit A, B : £15.75 per pack
Unit C, More Unit C : £17.5 per pack
Unit D £19 per pack
Unit E £22 per pack
Unit F £23 per pack
(Somewhere in the OUP website you can request a catalogue to be mailed to you. The info is in the catalogue.)
Both of you are quite expert in kid's English book.
I would like to seek your assistance in advising which series are suitable for my 7 years old boy who is now studying in P.1 and going to P.2 this Sept?
I am no expert.
FXPC, Kitty and Gloria are better at finding, commenting on and buying books - I am just a shopaholic.
My son is 7y and in P1 too.
He likes to read ORT now, and since he hasn't read too many ORT / OST books yet he reads anything from ORT Stage 1 to Stage 9, and also OST books at any level. He has recently borrowed Magic Key and OST Level 6 books from his class library for reading too. We found that OST Level 6 books = ORT Stage 10 books, while OST Level 7 = ORT Stage 11.
Anything at or below ORT Stage 7 he reads aloud to me, and anything above that I need to do the reading.
But Kitty's son who is now 5 can already read ORT Stage 7 by himself.
So there is no standard formula on suitable books for age and grade.
So long as your son likes the books and are willing to go through them, they should be your choice of suitable books for him.
Or you can pick some topic(s) which your son is more interested in, e.g. solar system, transportation, rescue stories, dinosaurs, and concentrate on getting books under these topics.
If your son is already reading chapter books, then you have lots more choices - Geromino Stilton (mouse reporter), Magic Tree House, Magic School Bus are all interesting series. Also A-Z Stories, Junie B Jones (maybe more for girls)..... O so many series that you are sure to be :-( after buying them all.
You should be the one who know your son best - the topics in which he is more interested, and his standard of English. You are the one to make the best choice for your son.
If your son is in P1/7y, Read at Home Stages 1-3 should be too easy for him. You may take a look at Stages 4 and 5 - these are slightly more difficult, but for P1 kids in EMI schools they may still be too easy. The Read at Home books are too new to be available form the public libraries.
There are lots of ORT books in the public libraries. Go there (with your son if he is interested), and take a look. I now tend to borrow books from Stages 5 to 9 for my son. Sometimes when there are interesting Stage 3 books I also borrow these. Borrow first before you buy, make sure you son is interested in the ORT series of books first, otherwise you will waste a lot of $$ on ORT books. Most kids tend to like ORT stories because they centre around several kids, and kids like to read about other kids.
And don't miss the Magic Key books. These are around Stages 6 and 7. Also available in the public library. If you have friends / relatives in UK, you should consider buying from www.thebookpeople.co.uk.
Only 9.99 pounds for 12 Magic Key series books. But they only ship to UK address.
OST = Oxford Story Tree
The titles / contents duplicate some of those in ORT, total 7 levels, 6 books per level.
And if you decide to buy, do get the books from some HK bookshops offering discounts, e.g. 10-15%, or if you have friends / relatives living in Singapore buy them from Popupar Bookshop there. It is even cheaper from Singapore Popolular than in HK (according to Gloria / Kitty / many other mums' experience).
Thank you for all information Bluestar and Kittylock supplied.
But ORT are duplicated from OST, why ORT become more popluar. Even I saw some parents especailly the mums when they found the ORT book in public libary, they hold them in their hands even they found that the stage is not suitable for their kids, such a strange situation.
Should think of it the other way roudn gwa :
All OST books are from ORT.
Kids usually like Floppy, Kipper, Biff and Chip, and there are more books on them under ORT.
Well if kid is expected to read by him/self ==> lower level;
but if mum reads to kid ==> can go for higher level books gwa.
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