Secondary Level Literacy
	English Now Provide your low ability students with English skills for life! Exciting, motivating material designed to stimulate struggling students to read, talk and write about topics, issues and ideas with confidence, focusing on developing relevant core skills. Teachers Books available Each Students' Book contains a variety of text types and topics of high interest to KS3 students. Each topic is approached through a variety of text types which may include reports, instructions, recounts, extracts from novels, playscripts and poetry. These text types are explored through topics which have strong cross-curricular links, and will appeal to both boys and girls, e.g. Space, Natural Disasters, Extreme Sports, The Black Death. Exciting, motivating material for developing functional, everyday English skills Highly illustrative material to capture attention and imagination Researched in the classroom to ensure the level is appropriate for your under-attaining students Topics and skills link across the curriculum including Science, Maths, Geography, Citizenship, History, ICT, Art, Design and Technology, to give context for learning English and help raise students' grades
	Double Club English Double Club English is a brand new football-based literacy programme, aimed at reluctant readers (particularly boys). The series is based on the teaching principles used in the award-winning Double Club education programme created by Arsenal Football Club. The Pupil Books tell the story of Shelby Town FC - delivering 'soap opera' style story lines through a rich range of text types and genres. Each book provides 30 structured units, with the story being featured on the left hand page and follow up spelling, grammar, punctuation and comprehension questions on the right. The stories are illustrated with graphic novel style image to support the text and engage less able readers. The Team Talk section features Speaking and Listening activities which are linked to the story and to real life football situations. Using Double Club English in class Read the text with the group Use the Team Talk section to discuss the text. Use the Skills Practice sections to practice the focus literacy skills of the unit, Use the Game On section to review comprehension of the text as a whole Use the Post Match photocopymaster (in the accompanying Teacher's Book) to apply the skills taught in a writing context.
	English Matters 1-3 (11-14) & English Matters (14-16) Developed specifically to help you deliver the requirements of the National Curriculum to lower attainers, English Matters has firmly established itself as the essential course to help you improve your students’ literacy. Student Books contain lively fiction, non-fiction, media, drama and poetry pieces arranged in relevant thematic units. Provides structured coverage of grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary development. Teacher’s Files provide photocopiable resource sheets, curriculum and course coverage charts, help with assessment and extra spelling support sheets. Skills Books are ideal for homework and extra practice. The books can be written in by students – allowing you to use them as evidence of their achievement.
	Grammar Matters This resource enables you to improve your students’ grammar, offering accessible explanations of terms and rules. Ensures that your students are well prepared for the Key Stage 3 tests. Provides clear and simple explanations of grammatical terms and rules, helping you to cover sentence level objectives in the Framework for teaching English. Offers genuine progression throughout the book by beginning with familiar concepts and moving on to more complex structures. Ensures that students are well prepared for Key Stage 3 tests, by keeping the emphasis on their own writing. Supports a wide range of abilities with both support and extension sheets in the Teacher’s Resource Pack.
	Developing Literacy Skills A full-colour resource, offering a whole year’s programme of work to help you to develop your students from NC Level 3 to Level 4 – and to ensure progression from Key Stage 3. Written especially to develop students in Year 7 who are still working at National Curriculum Level 3. Covers a wide range of text types with opportunities for individual, group and whole-class work. Offers progression so that those students are developed to Level 4. Perfect for Summer Literacy Schools - but also contains enough work for use throughout the whole year. The Teacher’s Support Pack offers writing frames and photocopiable worksheets to support the work in the Student Book.
	Developing Basic Comprehension Skills An invaluable resource to enable lower achievers to reach Level 4 with a clear focus on the reading and understanding skills that are vital for the Key Stage 3 tests and beyond An initial skills section equips students with essential comprehension strategies. Students are reminded of the strategies as they progress through the practice units in Section B. Students cover all the text types they might meet in the tests: fiction, non-fiction, media, poetry and drama. Students’ skills are developed progressively throughout each book, helping them to approach more complex texts as they go along. Practice tests are provided with and without scaffolding, to help students approach the tests with confidence.
	Developing Comprehension Skills Ideal for maximising the performance of the core ability range with a clear focus on the reading and understanding skills that are vital for the Key Stage 3 tests and beyond. These titles will help your students to reach their full potential in the Year 9 SATs! An initial skills section equips students with essential comprehension strategies. Students are reminded of the strategies as they progress through the practice units in Section B. Students cover all the text types they might meet in the tests: fiction, non-fiction, media, poetry and drama. Students’ skills are developed progressively throughout each book, helping them to approach more complex texts as they go along. By the end of the book students have all the skills they need to tackle Section C: practice tests
	Spelling Matters Spelling Matters ensures that students are getting the spelling help they need for accuracy in all subjects and exams. Perfect for covering word starter level activities. Diagnostic tests help students to pinpoint their weaknesses and analysis charts enable them to identify individual problems and target areas that need improvement. Helps your students to improve their spelling with clear explanations, tried-and-tested strategies, lively activities and regular self-tests. Flexible, ideal for use in class, for independent study or for homework. Contains a unit devoted to subject-specific vocabulary in ICT, D&T, English, Maths, Science and the Humanities, enabling you to raise standards across the curriculum.
	Progress in English 1-3 A brand new resource that enables students to reach Level 4 in the Progress Test – and gives them a real chance of keeping up with their peers. Sets the Progress Units in context and helps your students apply and develop these skills in their everyday work. Uses the teaching sequence recommended by the Key Stage 3 English Strategy for lower attainers. Gives students the confidence and skills to respond to progressively more challenging texts. Prepares students thoroughly for the Progress Test by providing sample questions and test tips. Enables you to integrate the Progress Units into your timetabled English class.
	Access English 1-3 Access English is a lively, stimulating course that develops the skills of all your students. It's ideal for those who are struggling with English and the Framework to meet National Curriculum requirements and the objectives in the Framework for Teaching English Years 7-9. There is also an Interactive Student CD-ROM. Covers Framework objectives, year by year, so you canbe sure of thorough coverage. Moves students to independent learning using effective teaching sequences. Includes a wide range of high-interest texts with supporting activities for lower-attainers. Includes both individual and group work to prepare, practise and secure the skills they have learnt. Provides a Student CD-ROM – ensuring progression in English and ICT skills at a level that is right for your students.
	Developing Reading & Writing Skills Develops the essential reading and writing skills progressively, building on students’ prior knowledge, to fully equip them for the Year 7 and 8 English tests. Covers the Framework objectives that are linked to the optional tests, using the KS3 Strategy’s recommended approach to teaching and learning. Offers the components of the NLS preferred lesson structure: starters, teacher-led activities, group activities and plenaries. Helps you to assess students’ progress throughout each year with diagnostic tests and end-of-unit assignments. Familiarises students with the test format and assessment foci – enabling them to respond effectively in the actual tests.
	Alpha to Omega For over 25 years, the Alpha to Omega programme has offered practical help in teaching reading, writing and spelling to adults and children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia. By following closely the normal pattern of phonological language acquisition, it helps to accelerate students’ learning. The Teacher’s Handbook provides detailed lesson plans for each stage of the course. *NEW Revised and updated Teacher's Handbook 6th edition with Student Book *Click here for more information
	New Literacy Kit Oxford's New Literacy Kit has a unique three-strand structure, which reflects the Framework approach and methodology. This structure is used throughout the year groups to ensure that students cover all key concepts and text types. Students' Books: - Organised by year, each book contains the three clearly marked strands for ease of use in the classroom - Includes lesson starters on the page for convenience and easy classroom management - Self-assessment material supports your school's Assessment for Learning policy. For more information click here
	New Hodder English Gold This title follows the "Hodder English Gold" series with the intention of raising standards in English. It has been written in association with The Basic Skills Agency, thereby ensuring the readability and accessibility. The book provides an incremental programme of work with clearly specified goals. Progression is built into each unit of study and across the course as a whole so that students establish, revisit and consolidate key skills. Work on basic skills is embedded in the context of purposeful activities and integrated with oral work.

Secondary Level Literacy

English now

English Now

Provide your low ability students with English skills for life!
Exciting, motivating material designed to stimulate struggling students to read, talk and write about topics, issues and ideas with confidence, focusing on developing relevant core skills. Teachers Books available

Each Students' Book contains a variety of text types and topics of high interest to KS3 students. Each topic is approached through a variety of text types which may include reports, instructions, recounts, extracts from novels, playscripts and poetry. These text types are explored through topics which have strong cross-curricular links, and will appeal to both boys and girls, e.g. Space, Natural Disasters, Extreme Sports, The Black Death.

Exciting, motivating material for developing functional, everyday English skills
Highly illustrative material to capture attention and imagination
Researched in the classroom to ensure the level is appropriate for your under-attaining students
Topics and skills link across the curriculum including Science, Maths, Geography, Citizenship, History, ICT, Art, Design and Technology, to give context for learning English and help raise students' grades

Double Club

DC 2

DC3

Double Club English

Double Club English is a brand new football-based literacy programme, aimed at reluctant readers (particularly boys). The series is based on the teaching principles used in the award-winning Double Club education programme created by Arsenal Football Club.

The Pupil Books tell the story of Shelby Town FC - delivering 'soap opera' style story lines through a rich range of text types and genres. Each book provides 30 structured units, with the story being featured on the left hand page and follow up spelling, grammar, punctuation and comprehension questions on the right.

The stories are illustrated with graphic novel style image to support the text and engage less able readers. The Team Talk section features Speaking and Listening activities which are linked to the story and to real life football situations.

Using Double Club English in class

Read the text with the group
Use the Team Talk section to discuss the text.
Use the Skills Practice sections to practice the focus literacy skills of the unit,
Use the Game On section to review comprehension of the text as a whole
Use the Post Match photocopymaster (in the accompanying Teacher's Book) to apply the skills taught in a writing context.

English Matters 1-3 (11-14) & English Matters (14-16)

Developed specifically to help you deliver the requirements of the National Curriculum to lower attainers, English Matters has firmly established itself as the essential course to help you improve your students’ literacy.

Student Books contain lively fiction, non-fiction, media, drama and poetry pieces arranged in relevant thematic units. Provides structured coverage of grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary development.
Teacher’s Files provide photocopiable resource sheets, curriculum and course coverage charts, help with assessment and extra spelling support sheets.
Skills Books are ideal for homework and extra practice. The books can be written in by students – allowing you to use them as evidence of their achievement.

Grammar Matters

This resource enables you to improve your students’ grammar, offering accessible explanations of terms and rules. Ensures that your students are well prepared for the Key Stage 3 tests.

Provides clear and simple explanations of grammatical terms and rules, helping you to cover sentence level objectives in the Framework for teaching English.
Offers genuine progression throughout the book by beginning with familiar concepts and moving on to more complex structures.
Ensures that students are well prepared for Key Stage 3 tests, by keeping the emphasis on their own writing.
Supports a wide range of abilities with both support and extension sheets in the Teacher’s Resource Pack.

Developing Literacy Skills

A full-colour resource, offering a whole year’s programme of work to help you to develop your students from NC Level 3 to Level 4 – and to ensure progression from Key Stage 3.

Written especially to develop students in Year 7 who are still working at National Curriculum Level 3.
Covers a wide range of text types with opportunities for individual, group and whole-class work.
Offers progression so that those students are developed to Level 4.
Perfect for Summer Literacy Schools - but also contains enough work for use throughout the whole year.
The Teacher’s Support Pack offers writing frames and photocopiable worksheets to support the work in the Student Book.

Developing Basic Comprehension Skills

An invaluable resource to enable lower achievers to reach Level 4 with a clear focus on the reading and understanding skills that are vital for the Key Stage 3 tests and beyond

An initial skills section equips students with essential comprehension strategies. Students are reminded of the strategies as they progress through the practice units in Section B.
Students cover all the text types they might meet in the tests: fiction, non-fiction, media, poetry and drama.
Students’ skills are developed progressively throughout each book, helping them to approach more complex texts as they go along.
Practice tests are provided with and without scaffolding, to help students approach the tests with confidence.

Developing Comprehension Skills

Ideal for maximising the performance of the core ability range with a clear focus on the reading and understanding skills that are vital for the Key Stage 3 tests and beyond. These titles will help your students to reach their full potential in the Year 9 SATs!

An initial skills section equips students with essential comprehension strategies. Students are reminded of the strategies as they progress through the practice units in Section B.
Students cover all the text types they might meet in the tests: fiction, non-fiction, media, poetry and drama.
Students’ skills are developed progressively throughout each book, helping them to approach more complex texts as they go along.
By the end of the book students have all the skills they need to tackle Section C: practice tests

Spelling Matters

Spelling Matters ensures that students are getting the spelling help they need for accuracy in all subjects and exams. Perfect for covering word starter level activities.

Diagnostic tests help students to pinpoint their weaknesses and analysis charts enable them to identify individual problems and target areas that need improvement.
Helps your students to improve their spelling with clear explanations, tried-and-tested strategies, lively activities and regular self-tests.
Flexible, ideal for use in class, for independent study or for homework.
Contains a unit devoted to subject-specific vocabulary in ICT, D&T, English, Maths, Science and the Humanities, enabling you to raise standards across the curriculum.

Progress in English 1-3

A brand new resource that enables students to reach Level 4 in the Progress Test – and gives them a real chance of keeping up with their peers.

Sets the Progress Units in context and helps your students apply and develop these skills in their everyday work.
Uses the teaching sequence recommended by the Key Stage 3 English Strategy for lower attainers.
Gives students the confidence and skills to respond to progressively more challenging texts.
Prepares students thoroughly for the Progress Test by providing sample questions and test tips.
Enables you to integrate the Progress Units into your timetabled English class.

Access English 1-3

Access English is a lively, stimulating course that develops the skills of all your students. It's ideal for those who are struggling with English and the Framework to meet National Curriculum requirements and the objectives in the Framework for Teaching English Years 7-9. There is also an Interactive Student CD-ROM.

Covers Framework objectives, year by year, so you canbe sure of thorough coverage.
Moves students to independent learning using effective teaching sequences.
Includes a wide range of high-interest texts with supporting activities for lower-attainers.
Includes both individual and group work to prepare, practise and secure the skills they have learnt.
Provides a Student CD-ROM – ensuring progression in English and ICT skills at a level that is right for your students.

Developing Reading & Writing Skills

Develops the essential reading and writing skills progressively, building on students’ prior knowledge, to fully equip them for the Year 7 and 8 English tests.

Covers the Framework objectives that are linked to the optional tests, using the KS3 Strategy’s recommended approach to teaching and learning.
Offers the components of the NLS preferred lesson structure: starters, teacher-led activities, group activities and plenaries.
Helps you to assess students’ progress throughout each year with diagnostic tests and end-of-unit assignments.
Familiarises students with the test format and assessment foci – enabling them to respond effectively in the actual tests.

Alpha to Omega

For over 25 years, the Alpha to Omega programme has offered practical help in teaching reading, writing and spelling to adults and children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia. By following closely the normal pattern of phonological language acquisition, it helps to accelerate students’ learning.

The Teacher’s Handbook provides detailed lesson plans for each stage of the course.
***NEW Revised and updated Teacher's Handbook 6th edition with Student Book ***Click here for more information

New Literacy Kit

Oxford's New Literacy Kit has a unique three-strand structure, which reflects the Framework approach and methodology. This structure is used throughout the year groups to ensure that students cover all key concepts and text types.

Students' Books:
- Organised by year, each book contains the three clearly marked strands for ease of use in the classroom
- Includes lesson starters on the page for convenience and easy classroom management
- Self-assessment material supports your school's Assessment for Learning policy. For more information click here

New Hodder English Gold

This title follows the "Hodder English Gold" series with the intention of raising standards in English. It has been written in association with The Basic Skills Agency, thereby ensuring the readability and accessibility. The book provides an incremental programme of work with clearly specified goals. Progression is built into each unit of study and across the course as a whole so that students establish, revisit and consolidate key skills. Work on basic skills is embedded in the context of purposeful activities and integrated with oral work.