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essential letters and sounds

Essential Tips: Getting ready for September!

July 17, 2023July 17, 2023Oxford Primary

Get ready for the new academic year and ensure a successful start in teaching Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) with these very helpful tips! Assess your resources, organise decodable reading books, allocate training time and more on the blog! Find out more.

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Helping you and your children prepare for the phonics screening check

March 31, 2023April 27, 2023Oxford Primary
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Get your Year 1 students ready for the phonics screening check(PSC) with confidence using the Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS). Our blog shares top tips for consolidating code knowledge, providing reading opportunities, and targeted teaching interventions. Say goodbye to testing anxiety and hello to PSC success with ELS.

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Moving to a DfE-validated Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) Programme

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021Oxford Primary

What is the guidance around Letters and Sounds? The DfE have recently announced that the 2007 Letters and Sounds Handbook is not a full Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme. It does not provide the support, guidance, resources or training needed to meet the requirements of a systematic and rigorous approach to the teaching of phonics. […]

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How Oxford’s validated phonics programmes teach and support young readers

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021Oxford Primary

Find out how our DfE-validated phonics programmes support you and your school with ensuring every child learns to read, and loves to read.

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