Oxford Literacy has been specifically designed to support guided reading in the first three years of school. The Oxford Literacy fiction and non-fiction guided reading texts recognise that a guided reading group in a ‘real’ classroom never has every student on the same level; therefore, the texts and supporting teaching versions allow educators to work with small groups of students across a range of levels within their stage of reading.

Because Oxford Literacy is a guided reading program, a single title has limited use in a classroom; therefore, it is recommended that educators use multiple copies of a title in guided reading groups to achieve maximum benefit from Oxford Literacy.

Each Oxford Literacy text includes information on the following:

• Stage of the reader
• Text level
• Word count
• Text type
• Theme
• Oxford Wordlist high frequency words
• Key visual communicators
• Purpose of the visuals

The teaching version for each text includes teaching support for the following:

• Background knowledge – Making links
• Text genre (fiction or non-fiction)
• Structure and text features
• Words and sounds
• Predicting
• Meaning, structure and visual information
• Reading the visuals
• Links to the Oxford Wordlist