Author of the month – April 2022
Sipho Richard Kekezwa Oxford University Press Southern Africa is hosting an Author of the Month in order to honour our renowned South African authors. The author of this month is Sipho Richard Kekezwa, the winner of the South African Youth Literature Award 2021. For...The Essential Guide to Starting Your Own School Library
A library forms a solid foundation for any good school. It encourages good reading habits and contributes to a higher level of literacy in the school. You can encourage good reading habits and foster a culture of reading in your school with this essential guide to...An Author Reads: Usenza Iqhawekazi
Aweh! IsiZulu Grade 2 Level 5 Reader 10 A fiction legend story about how the practice of celebrating birthdays with a birthday cake came to be. Read by author: Thembinkosi Mabaso Download Worksheets Download Cover #readingforenjoyment #readingforfun #readingtime...The Art and Science of Levelled reading books
Teaching children to read is a crucial objective for all schools, wherever your school is based in the world and whatever curricula you choose to follow. As children become confident and competent in reading, they gain the power to access knowledge and information...Mirabelle
Half witch, half fairy, totally naughty! Meet Mirabelle Starspell. Her mom is a witch, her dad is a fairy, and she is a bit of both. She likes casting spells with her fairy wand and flying around on her witchy broomstick, but most of all the thing she really, really...An Author Reads: I want to play
Aweh! English Grade 1 Level 1 Reader 7 I want to play is the seventh Reader of Level 1 in the Aweh! English First Additional Language reading scheme. Aweh! is a graded reading scheme that will awaken any child’s imagination as they join Mama Africa in saving the...Kitty’s Superhero Adventures
Girl by day. Cat by night. Ready for adventure. In Paula Harrison and Jenny Lovlie’s exciting new series, Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers. She dreams of being just like her superhero mum one day, but she’s still got a lot to learn! Join her...MARV
Suit Up. Step Up. It’s Time to Become a Hero! Marvin’s life is perfectly ordinary until one day he discovers a mysterious superhero suit hidden in his attic. It is powered by kindness and imagination, and since Marvin has tons of both, the powers of the suit are...Tips on getting your child more interested in reading
Written by Elizabeth Nadler-Nir (MSc Speech-Language Therapist, The Reading Language Gym for Oxford Reading Safari) The goal of reading is to get information, to be entertained, to travel to impossible places, to connect with ideas and to become an independent...Ballet Bunnies
One girl, four bunnies and a wonderful dancing adventure! Join aspiring ballet dancer, Millie and her bunny friends as they learn to dance together. Learning a new skill can be hard but when you’ve got friends like the ballet bunnies every day is a new adventure! This...An Author Reads: Sindwendwela Iiplanethi
A family of aliens are on holiday. They visit different planets. However, on each planet, something goes wrong. All dad wants to do is take a family photo but each time something goes wrong and they end up taking a ruined photo. They eventually make their way to Earth...An Author Reads: Who lost their bag, Mongo?
Mongo solves the mystery of who lost their bag while they were visiting Johannesburg. Read by author: Lindy Brien Download Worksheets Download Cover #readingforenjoyment #readingforfun #readingtime #readingisfunIntroducing Big Words for Little People
What does it actually mean to be kind, brave, calm, or happy to a four-year-old? Some words need a child-friendly explanation to help children make sense of the world around them. Introducing Big Words for Little People, a series of picture books designed to help you...Let’s Do posters for use in the primary classroom
Let’s Do is our series of learner books and teacher guides for the primary school classroom in Namibia. The series offers core resources for English First Additional Language, Social Sciences, Life Skills, Natural Sciences, Elementary Agriculture and...Aweh! isiXhosa and isiZulu posters
The Aweh! graded reading scheme is available in phonics versions for isiXhosa and isiZulu. Oxford has developed posters to assist teachers in teaching phonics. These phonics charts list the phonic sounds with an image that represents a word starting with that...Correct English without Lowering Motivation in 6 Simple Steps
Adapted from the Oxford University Press ELT blog site There are many ways to assess learners, for example, mini-tests or observations, in order to evaluate and monitor their understanding and progress. Evaluation also allows us to guide learners on how to improve....An Author Reads: Siya eQwaqwa (A journey to Qwaqwa)
It is the school holidays. Langa and his little sister Nandi are going to Qwaqwa to visit their grandmother. The journey to Qwaqwa is full of adventure and laughter for Langa and Nandi. Listen to “Siya eQwaqwa” read by author: Thembinkosi Mabaso. Siya Eqwaqwa is a...An Author Reads: Let’s Go Lizzy
Let’s go on holiday with Lizzy and her grandparents! “Let’s Go Lizzy” is a story about a little girl called Lizzy that goes on holiday with her grandparents and sees and uses a lot of different modes of transport along the way. Listen to “Let’s Go Lizzy” read by...An author reads: Izivakashi emkhathini
Aliens journey to different planets – A family of aliens are on holiday. They visit different planets. However, at each planet something goes wrong. All dad wants to do is take a family photo but each time something goes wrong and they end up taking a ruined...An author reads: Hen’s clever plan
Hen hatches a plan to help Cow go on holiday, read by author Lindy Brien. We’ve even included some worksheets to download and keep you busy during the holidays. This title is a part of the Aweh! English Grade 1 Level 4 (Reader 9). Download Worksheets Download Cover...Oxford Word of the Year 2021 is: VAX
1st November 2021 (Oxford, UK and New York, NY) – Oxford Languages announces its 2021 Word of the Year, and the publication of the language report: VAX, a Report into the language of vaccines. In past years, the Oxford Word of the Year has been selected as a word or...How to choose the best educational technology for your classroom
Today’s society is enamoured with digital gadgets and cutting-edge technology. There are a number of ways in which digital technology can be used to improve education. Nevertheless, how can we choose which technology to use in our classrooms, given that it...Exam Success Digital Poetry
Take your studying to the next level with Oxford’s Exam Success Digital study guides, providing all the support you need for the prescribed poems in Grade 12 for English Home and First Additional Language. Much more than your run-of-the-mill paper study guide, Exam...
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