The Oxford Children’s Language Team reflect on the Government’s white paper for schools, highlighting the importance of vocabulary.
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International Maths Teaching Lead, Adil Jaffer shows parents three easy ways to encourage joy and curiosity through maths in the home.
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Beth Cox has been making books incidentally inclusive since 2005. She works with publishers to help them understand the basic principles of inclusion so that they can embed inclusion in everything they publish. She’s also a co-founder of Inclusive Minds , a collective of people championing authentic inclusion in the children’s book world. Inclusive Minds has a […]
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Louise Aukland examines the current evidence surrounding wellbeing in young children and offers advice to help teachers embed wellbeing support into their lessons.
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How are British children responding to the emerging themes and issues in their writing? When OUP was asked if we’d like to be the language expert for a ‘pop up’ 500 Words: Black Lives Matter children’s writing competition, we didn’t hesitate for a moment. OUP has been the language partner to 500 Words since 2012, […]
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Coronavirus is the 2020 Oxford Children’s Word of the Year! 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show and Chris Evans’ 500 Words short story competition, and saw more than 134,000 children submit entries, hitting the millionth story milestone! As part of ongoing language and lexical research, the Oxford Children’s Dictionaries & […]
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Inspire young readers with our top ten fabulous female characters, handpicked from some of our favourite children’s books. 1) Pippi Longstocking Meet Pippi Longstocking (5+), written by Astrid Lindgren, illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Pippi Longstocking story (although Pippi herself will always be nine years old of […]
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What word describes the shape of a Vermicious Knid? Which Roald Dahl character stridulates? And what does snozzcumberophagous mean? These are all things that you can learn from delving into the pages of the new Oxford Roald Dahl Thesaurus.
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13th September marks Roald Dahl Day, and, to celebrate, Oxford University Press has released its 13 Words of Bravery. These 13 words reflect the ways children today write about bravery and the context in which they use these words to feel empowered in difficult situations. Read on to find out more or download the full report here . The Oxford […]
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Every year thousands of young people from across the UK pick up their pens to enter BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words competition. As part of ongoing language and lexical research, the Oxford Children’s Dictionaries & Children’s Language Data team at Oxford University Press has analysed almost 113,000 short stories submitted to the competition for the […]
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