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Classroom strategies to support struggling readers

March 14, 2023April 26, 2023Oxford English Team
Support struggling readers

Alice Visser shares important strategies that secondary English teachers can implement in their classrooms to support struggling readers, with tips to improve reading ability and outcomes in secondary schools.

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How to encourage reading for pleasure at school

December 9, 2022March 9, 2023Oxford English Team

Discover how BTHCC focused on two areas that have been transformational in changing student attitudes and results in reading levels: the transformed school library space; and the embedding of reading across the curriculum.

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Teaching phonics: Developing a love of reading at nursery

March 16, 2020March 1, 2023Oxford Primary
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Teaching the very earliest stages of reading using phonics in the last term of nursery will give children a head start in Reception. However, at this stage, it’s really important to keep phonics teaching simple. Read our top tips for teaching phonics at nursery.

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Read Write Inc. Phonics for EAL learners

February 27, 2020February 27, 2023Leyla Vladar

Do you have students with varying levels of English in your classes? Wondering how you can ensure all your students achieve reading fluency with Read Write Inc. Phonics? Experienced Reading Leader, Jane Spicer, talks to us about her continued success implementing Read Write Inc. Phonics in a school where there is a wide range of […]

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Unlocking the power of a class reader

February 13, 2020February 24, 2020Oxford English Team
Unlocking the potential of the class reader

Effective Reading Strategies in the classroom This year in every English classroom across the land, classes will be ploughing their way through a class reader. The potential learning is immense. Tackled in the right way, students will be employing the full range of their mental or cognitive processes, developing their attention span, their recall and […]

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Healthy individuals and healthy school communities

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019Imogen Plumridge

HOT TOPIC Healthy individuals and healthy school communities Joy Court looks at the role that reading can play in children’s mental health. How well a school supports pupils’ personal development is a key feature of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework that was published in May. There is actually much in this framework that could be used to justify (should […]

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How can you help parents and carers support their nursery-aged children with reading?

April 2, 2019March 1, 2023Oxford Early Years
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Read this blog for ideas to engage parents and carers with developing good reading habits with their nursery-aged children at home, including downloadable worksheets to print which are perfect for sending home.

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