The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed to guide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales, English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum in Northern Ireland, the Oxford Literacy Web guides pupils through the core skills associated with learning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry.
Launch into Literacy is a course to inspire the highest reading and writing skills in today's children. A new language programme specially written for NLS and other curriculum requirements, Launch into Literacy is a structured five-book course (Foundation Book and Books 1-4) for 6-11 year olds, Y2/P3 to Y6/P7. It presents a wide range of texts for children to study as models for their own writing at text, sentence, and word level.
The Teacher's Guides include photocopy masters and photocopiable assessment sheets.
Jane Medwell, PhD, was a primary teacher before becoming interested in primary literacy and languages. She taught and did research at the Universities of Wales, Exeter, Plymouth and Warwick before jointing the University of Nottingham as Associate Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences.