Join our free Essential Letters and Sounds Australia (ELSA) workshop to find out how Oxford can support you in implementing a cost effective and evidence-based approach to teaching phonics in your school. Featuring presentations from expert authors and the Oxford University Press product team, this workshop will equip you with strategies and resources to help you maximise student learning and understanding.

This workshop will include:

Essential Letters and Sounds Australia overview and principles
An introduction to our Australian experts, Karina Stocker and Dr Nathaniel Swain
A look at the ELSA phonics sequence, aligned to Letters and Sounds
An introduction to the program components, with a focus on:

Complete teacher support (including front-of-class presentations)
Assessment
Interventions
Fully decodable texts

Information on program implementation, ongoing training and coaching
Free resources designed to help you implement the program successfully

Each attendee will receive*:

An Oxford Reading for Comprehension phonics pack, made up of 8 unique titles aligned to the ELSA program
$50.00 Oxford Voucher (maximum of one per school)

*Terms and Conditions apply

DATE & LOCATION

Thursday 31st October | Weetangera Primary School, 71 Southwell Street, Weetangera. ACT 2614

SCHEDULE

4:00pm | Afternoon tea and check-in
4:30pm | Phonics workshop

Meet the presenter

Joanna Lake
Product Manager: Primary, Licensing & Export at OUP ANZ

Joanna Lake is a highly experienced educational publisher. She manages all publishing across the Primary portfolio at OUP ANZ and is the publisher of Essential Letters and Sounds Australia, Oxford’s fully decodable series Oxford Reading for Comprehension Decodables (highly commended at the Educational Publishing Awards 2022) and Oxford Reading for Comprehension Discover, along with Oxford Spelling and a number of other Literacy series.