The ORFC Decodables Teacher Handbook provides complete support for the series:
- Provides guidance on the phonic progression in Oxford Reading for Comprehension Decodables, including an overview of the series’ systematic synthetic phonics framework aligned to Phases 1–6 of Letters and Sounds.
- Includes warm-up activities, tips on practising sounds, segmenting and blending, and guidance on using the decodable texts in the classroom.
- Includes phonic and vocabulary overviews for every book in the series.
- Explains the Comprehension Skills Framework and its application across the program.
- Explains and defines the comprehension strategies and skills employed.
- Gives guidance on modelling the comprehension strategies and using the metacognitive strategy of ‘thinking aloud’, which is proven to support comprehension development.
- Contains high-quality, practical support in teaching, modelling and developing comprehension skills based on the latest research.
- Gives practical guidance on monitoring and assessing students’ phonic knowledge and comprehension skills, along with next steps for teaching.
Oxford Reading for Comprehension Decodables is a unique, fully decodable, Australian guided reading series for Years F–2. It is underpinned by a finely sequenced phonics framework aligned to Letters and Sounds and a research-based Comprehension Skills Framework.
The ORFC Decodables series is structured so that the introduction of new sounds is supported by one fiction title and one non-fiction title in Oxford Levels 1–6 to help develop strong early vocabulary acquisition and build student reading success.
Each text includes comprehension questions on the inside front cover for before, during and after reading, and a coaching card to support guided reading sessions.
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