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Essential Letters and Sounds

Essential Letters and Sounds on Oxford Owl

Digital subscriptions to support your phonics teaching

Oxford Owl is home to award-winning subscriptions and free resources to support teaching and learning in primary schools and at home.

Take a tour around Essential Letters and Sounds Online Teaching Subscription on Oxford Owl, and discover how it’s used daily in ELS

You can find two different Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) annual subscriptions available on Oxford Owl for School:

Teachers using the ELS programme will need the Online Teaching Subscription to access the daily whiteboard lessons as well as the handbook and other printable resources.

Oxford Owl for Home offers expert advice and free resources for parents and carers.

Are you new to ELS?

This phonics programme follows the original 2007 Letters and Sounds progression. It is designed to ensure that all children learn to read well and make speedy progress. Find out more here.


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ELS eBook Library

Essential Letters and Sounds eBook Library

This eBook library contains 127 fully decodable fiction and non-fiction eBooks matched to the Essential Letters and Sounds progression and organized by term and week.