Oxford Reading Tree... and what it means to me 🌳📖🗝️
In the lecture today, I heard that Oxford Reading Tree (I’ll explain in a sec) is actually the UK’s no.1 reading scheme!
Reading scheme - basically the school books that were leveled and would be sent home in reading groups.
Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) - a reading scheme that was based on... wait for it... The Magic Key!
The Magic Key 🗝️
For those of you who don’t know what The Magic Key is... watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y40FNkAL0qk
I bet you that theme tune will stuck in your head all day now 😂
As a very young child, I watched this show anytime it was on. It was so exciting and offered tonnes of new experiences and situations for the characters.
The books are no different.
❓ Did you know:
The books came before the TV series 😱
The Magic Key [as a reading scheme!] 📖
As soon as I found out that The Magic Key was actually prescribed reading at school, my outlook on reading had shifted completely. I saw it as more of an adventure rather than a homework task.
My family even purchased them because me and my brother’s school only covered a few... and we wanted to read them all!
And here are our favourites (from way back when we were little):
I loved these despite not being a lover of reading so it just goes to show, choose the right reading scheme and you may see some children who struggle to read begin to enjoy it.
Here’s a useful website for teachers / parents: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/oxford-reading-tree-levels/
And they’re pretty easy to purchase if you fancy reading a few... infact, I think I might go dig out my old ones because it might be interesting to view them as a teacher (even though, that’s probably an excuse just to read them again 🤔 😂 )
- Christopher 🤗
