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May Reading List: eBook Escapes

May 1, 2020April 28, 2020Oxford Primary
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We’ve picked some more of our favourite free eBooks from the Oxford Owl eBook library, and this time they’re all books that will take your class on an adventure without leaving the comfort of their living rooms. Let’s escape into an eBook!

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April Reading List: Boredom-busting eBooks

April 1, 2020March 27, 2020Oxford Primary 1 Comment

We know that lots of your pupils will be learning at home for now, so this time we’ve gathered together a selection of recommended eBooks that are easy to access – and most importantly, completely free!

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Teaching phonics and developing a love of reading at nursery

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020Oxford 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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March Reading List: Our diverse planet

March 6, 2020March 4, 2020Oxford Primary
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British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths taking place between 6-15 March 2020. We’ve put together this list of reading recommendations to inspire young scientists of all ages.

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Read Write Inc. Phonics for EAL learners

February 27, 2020March 12, 2020Leyla 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
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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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February Reading List: Fascinating Families

February 11, 2020February 5, 2020Oxford Primary

We’ve gathered together a collection of stories all about family life to celebrate families whether they’re big or small, noisy or quiet, silly or serious, to help your class think about their relationships with their families and to meet new families that might be completely different from their own.

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Festive To Be Read pile: update

January 7, 2020January 10, 2020Oxford English Team
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The Oxford Team had a fairly large collective To Be Read pile and an impending holiday approaching offering quality reading time. So was any progress made and were there any last minute substitutions? A few members of the team let us know! Susie: The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare “I did not complete the Infernal Devices series! I watched […]

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Ideas for closing the Word Gap in the classroom

December 17, 2019March 26, 2020Oxford Education

We recently held a small event in our Oxford offices to talk to primary and secondary school teachers about vocabulary and the Word Gap in their school. Lots of interesting, practical ideas were shared and discussed and we have summarised some of them here: Give key vocabulary at the start of each lesson. Encourage students […]

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December Reading List: Christmas Crackers

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019Oxford Primary 1 Comment
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Ho ho ho! To help you celebrate the season of goodwill in your classroom, we’ve gathered together a stocking full of frosty and festive tales, including a few Christmas classics and some chilly adventures with favourite characters. So grab a few minutes of quiet between all those nativity plays, carol concerts and mince pie meet-ups, […]

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