Hi Families,
Below is a letter from Marie Pytharoulis regarding an online reading program called Oxford Owl. Please read through this and get in touch if you have any questions or concerns:
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Dear Parent/Guardian,
The use of web based educational resources are being increasingly used to improve student learning outcomes. At CLG, our Reception to Year 3 students are fortunate enough to have access to a range online and interactive ebooks through the use of the Oxford Owl Student Bookshelf <https://www.oup.com.au/primary/marketing-pages/oxford-owl-student-bookshelf>
The benefit of having access to the Oxford Owl Student Bookshelf is that it contains hundreds of finely levelled Oxford Literacy fiction and nonfiction ebooks. The titles offer rich online reading experiences for use at school and/or at home. Every ebook includes three e-activities specifically written around the content of the book to build on students’ comprehension of the text they have just read.
The e-activities include:
• immediate feedback
• drag-and-drop activities
• multiple-choice questions
• word study activities
Registering with this provider requires student personal information to be disclosed to the provider of the service enabling students to login. Oxford University Press does not sell personal information to third parties. Registering students to access this resource includes disclosing the following information about your child:
• Student first and last name
• Year group
• Class teacher
• School
More information can be found at http://global.oup.com/privacy?cc=au
Please contact your child’s teacher if you have any further questions or if you do not want your child to have access to the online resources.
Thanks,
Marie
Hi Erin
Is this a resource that we are able to access at home or is it school based only?
Thanks
Tamara
Hi Tamara,
This can be accessed from home, however at this stage we are just exploring it at school. Next term I will provide logins for the online programs we use so that students can access them from home.
Erin
Hi Erin
this sounds fantastic. I’d be interested in it for Eliza in year 4 can I get it for her too?
Thanks
Cate
Hi Cate,
This resource is for levelled readers (RR 1-30). If Eliza is on readers her teacher should be able to organise a subscription for her. Otherwise Scholastic Learning Zone (Literacy Pro) is the resource we have access to for Lexile readers. This also has online books with associated quizzes to monitor reading comprehension. I’m happy to show you the difference between these two resources some time!
Erin
Once you have arranged log ins for the students, I would love one for Tom as well please.
Thank you,
Coralie