Read at Home is an innovative new scheme designed for young, beginner readers. Each of the twelve exciting stories has been written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining books, are carefully graded across four levels and contain built in progression and vocabulary repetition. Support material is available for parents including Flashcards: Word Games, to reinforce word recognition, and Handbook, which gives advice on helping children to read and includes activities to support their reading. Floppy and the Bone is Level 2c for children Starting to Read - those children who can recognize a few words by sight, can use pictures to help read simple sentences, and know some letter sounds. The story has a high degree of patterning and vocabulary repetition with one to two sentences per page. It retells the fable The Dog and the Bone as an everyday story, so there are opportunities for children to compare the two stories.