Thursday, January 14, 2021

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #7

 

            OxfordOWL help children to learn to read and write. You can visit the site at https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/. This site helps children learn with expert advice and have many free activities. It is available for children at age of 3 to 11 years old. They have Free eBook library, phonics guidance and reading schemes along with levels. They even have a book shop that contains with popular series characters for kids.

            OxforOWL also has a curriculum for learning English. Topics are grammar, punctuation, handwriting, spelling, vocabulary, writing, and literacy glossary. They even have story teller videos that are fun to watch with families. One of the interesting things is that they have activities for cooking too with many recipes for parents, teachers and students to follow. Instructions, ingredients and methods are also provided there for learners. Parents can prepare snacks following their recipes while waiting for their kids to take a break.

            OxfordOwl has guides for leveled readers to support students reading development. It is very detailed finely graded progression-taking learners from their very first steps in reading all the way to the being skillful, independent readers. Getting into this site and using information from their page, teachers or parents can reflect on their student’s readings and can easily find the Oxford level that matches their current stage of development. Following guidance procedures teachers will be able to find a wide range of appropriate resources at these levels to help students extend and develop their skills further. The levels run from 1-20. Each new level offers new language, new themes, and a chance to practice what a child has learned already.

            Oxford leveled books have helped millions of children learn and love to read. They believed that a good reading scheme; support a child’s phonic learning and helps support the skills required for fluent reading, widens a child’s reading experiences, offers carefully scaffolded content to ensure children are reading at an appropriate level to their age and ability and lastly reinforces independent reading for pleasure. These are their most popular reading scheme. This is one of the best sites for students.

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