Literacy & English
Essential Letters and Sounds Australia
Years F–2
An affordable, easy-to-use systematic, synthetic phonics program. Essential Letters and Sounds Australia (ELSA) is built on a research-based program with proven impact. We have adapted this series for complete alignment to Australian schools and all state curriculums.
Read Write Inc. Phonics
Years F–2
Read Write Inc. Phonics is a rigorous program for F–2 that is proven to create fluent, enthusiastic readers, confident speakers and willing writers. It incorporates effective classroom management strategies that ensure participation and fast progress for all students, and comes with comprehensive lesson plans and assessment resources.
Flying Start to Literacy: Phonics
Years F–2
Flying Start to Literacy: Phonics follows an explicit and systematic sequence of skills and knowledge from common sounds of consonants and vowels to less common letter-sound correspondences.
Fully-decodable readers
Years F–4
Oxford has over 300 titles that are fully decodable and sequenced to Letters and Sounds.
Titles include a range of fiction and non-fiction titles featuring compelling characters, enagaging storylines and fun illustrations.
We've mapped each series and title to the Letters and Sounds sets and phases in our correlation chart, so you customise your own decodable reading list to meet the unique needs of your students.
Reading and Comprehension
Years F+
A consistent, strategic approach to teaching comprehension is the key to developing reading comprehension. Oxford's comprehension programs offer a consistent approach to teaching and learning, utilising strategies and skills that support usual classroom practice.
Our comprehension programs address skills development in the early years (Years F–3) and whole-class teaching for Years 3–6.
Oxford Handwriting 3e
Years F–6
Oxford Handwriting supports students in developing their letter formation skills alongside their phonic knowledge. Foundation/Year K follows the same order of letters as Letters and Sounds.
In Years 1 and 2, the letters are grouped by shape, using words and phrases that are fully decodable for each level. For Years 3 to 6, each book has an interesting and informative theme to engage the students as they learn cursive writing and improve speed and legibility.
Oxford Grammar 3e
Years 1–6
Oxford Grammar 3e student workbooks use appealing stimulus pages and authentic literary texts to model grammar in context. They carefully build students' understanding with related activities for practice and help students know excatly what they are going to learn with clearly stated intentions. Each workbook is aligned to the Australian, Westen Australian, Victorian and New South Wales curricula.
Adopting schools get access to the Teacher Dashboard, with comprehensive lesson support and extra resources.
Oxford Spelling
Years F–6
Planned and written by Dr Tessa Daffern, Oxford Spelling incorporates the latest spelling research into a flexible and practical classroom resource.
This comprehensive series enables teachers to teach spelling generalisations and strategies sequentially and explicitly, and connect spelling knowledge to reading, writing and other disciplines.
My Personal Dictionary 5e
New editions in 2025
My Personal Dictionary is a modern, engaging and high-quality writing book that helps students to build their personal vocabulary as a building block for learning to write. Aligned to the curriculum, this is a book that students can keep with them from Foundation to Year 2.
With new editions for New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Curriculum, these dictionaries help students create their own word list to help support writing sentences and later extended texts to express ideas. These editions are linked to the new Oxford Handwriting and use bright illustrations that support phonemic awareness.
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