Category: Teaching
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What is Shared Reading?
Shared reading is an important part of the reading cycle for building independent and successful readers. By definition, shared reading is an instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers. It is usual for educators to undertake part of their reading strategy instruction through a combination of whole-class…
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Using infographics in the classroom
Ever wondered if book designers have a favourite colour they like to use? Or a particular font or style of typography? So did Regine, one of our Senior Concept Designers! So she analysed the covers of every textbook that Oxford published across its four divisions in 2013 (204 altogether) and constructed an infographic to show…
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Ask the Expert: Anne Bayetto
Anne lectures in Special Education at Flinders University, South Australia, and focuses on literacy and numeracy students with learning difficulties. Anne brings her knowledge of assessment, planning and the instruction of reading and written language to classroom practitioners. As the author of the Oxford Wordlist Stage 2 Research Study Summary Report, Read Record Respond and…
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Developing reading strategies
Developing a broad range of reading strategies, and understanding how they may be used, supports students to become independent and successful readers. Educators need to specifically teach students how to think and talk about texts, rather than just conveying information about texts or doing the reading and thinking for their students. Following are some great…
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Deepening awareness and understanding of Indigenous culture in the classroom
Did you know Australia is celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day today? Indigenous Literacy Day aims to raise vital funds to put books and literacy resources into the hands of school students, babies, toddlers and mothers in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. Oxford University Press has published an Indigenous Literacy series Yarning Strong. The…
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Ask the Expert: Robyn Steward
Robyn is an experienced literacy education consultant. She has brought her expertise to Oxford Literacy Assess by creating rigorous levelling criteria for the assessment texts and conducting extensive classroom trialling of all 60 assessment texts. Prior to her role as a consultant for Oxford Literacy Assess, Robyn was a Regional Literacy Leader for the Victorian…
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Building Independent and Successful Readers
Independent and successful readers are developed as a result of educators implementing a well balanced literacy program. A combination of diagnosing reading abilities and providing shared, guided and one-on-one instruction allows students to develop the right skills and strategies to be able to read independently. See how a coordinated program can make children love reading!…