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.
I will send home Oxford Owl passwords next week in the diary.
Please let me know if you have any questions. I would love any feedback. I will be working with our Literacy Coach to show students, in class, how to use the site before I send the passwords home. We will also be using this site during our Literacy / Guided Reading sessions.
Some of you may have used this website last year. It student section of this site is new for me, so please be patient if I can’t answer all of your questions straightaway.
I am excited to be using it as part of our Literacy Program!
