Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. Ouch! is Level 2C for children Starting to Read - those children who can recognize a few words by sight, can use pictures to read simple sentences and who know some initial letter sounds. The story has 1-2 sentences per page with lots of patterning and repetition. This book is at the same reading level as 2C Floppy and the Bone Approx ORT level: Stages 2-3 Highly successful, high profile author and illustrator team: BLRoderick Hunt, author of the original Oxford Reading Tree stories, and Cynthia Rider 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