What is the Oxford Wordlist?
The Oxford Wordlist includes the 500 most frequently used words by children in their first three years of school. We've examined these word choices against the same demographic criteria used in the first research conducted 10 years ago, and explored what these word choices indicate about how children's identities and social experiences have changed in the past decade.
- Developed by Australian experts for Australian schools
- The most used wordlist in Australian Primary schools
- Allows teachers to customise wordlists for targeted teaching
- Wordlist is integrated into Oxford's literacy resources
- Helps improve students' reading and writing outcomes
The Oxford Wordlist Research Report
The 2017 Oxford Wordlist research study was conducted in Australian schools and sought to compare data with the first Oxford Wordlist research (An investigation of high frequency words in young children’s writing and reading development) conducted in 2007, and to provide an updated list of high frequency words for writing and reading.
The aim of this research study was to document the words children first write, to examine these choices against the same demographic criteria used in the first research study conducted 10 years ago, and to explore what these word choices indicate about how children’s identities and social experiences have changed in the past decade.