Oxford Essential Reading
Laying the foundation for sound reading
In line with the recommendations of the National Reading Panel 2000 [download summary report] the Oxford Essential Reading series represents best practice in early reading instruction.
Awareness Modules – The four awareness modules systematically teach young children about the match between the sounds of English and the letters we use to represent them in writing.
Sound Starters
Sound Stories
Sound Blends
Sound Rhymes
Reading Modules – for promoting decoding skills through knowledge of short vowel rime patterns/word families.
Sound Starters
Help Children link Sounds of English with their common letter equivalents
Sound Starters consist of;
- 30 small books - one book for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet, 3 commonly used consonant diagraphs:ch, sh and th, and an ABC small book
that includes all the alphabet charachters
- Teacher Resource Book
- Big Book
- CD
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- develop phonological awareness with Beginning readers
- encourage the child to be a story teller
- develop the child's love of language and a positive attitude to reading
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Sound Stories
Help children consolidate their letter-sound knowledge
| Sound Stories consist of;
- 30 small books - one book for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet, 3 commonly used consonant diagraphs:ch, sh and th, and an ABC matchup book
- Teacher Resource Book
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- develop phonological awareness with Beginning readers
- encourage the child in the early attempts at reading and obtaining meaning from text
- develop the child's love of language and a positive attitude to reading
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Sound Blends
Consolidate letter-sound knowledge by highlighting the initial consonant blends
Sound Blends consist of;
- 20 small books - one for 19 initial blends (onsets)presenting the most frequently occuring initial consonant letter blends in English and a Blends Blast-off book highlights all the inital blends in illustration.
- Teacher Resource Book
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- develop phonological and orthographic awareness with Emergent and Early readers
- encourage the child to be a story teller
- develop the child's love of language and a positive attitude to reading
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Sound Rhymes
Stimulate awareness of Rhymes in stories
Sound Rhymes consist of;
- 20 small books - introducing the most common rimes and highlighting the sound and letter patterns of familiar rhymes.
- Teacher Resource Book
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- develop phonological and orthographic awareness with Emergent and Early readers
- encourage the child to be a story teller
- develop the child's love of language
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Teacher Resource Books
NOTE: The books can not be purchased from this website – they are available through the publisher (Oxford University Press Australia ) or contact your educational bookseller to order.
Download the Oxford Essential Reading flyer and order form [PDF ~1700kb]
Phone: 03 9934 9123
Customer service: 1300 650 616
Free fax: 1800 813 602
Email: cs.au@oup.com
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