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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Essential Letters and Sounds: Online Teaching Subscription

A subscription to Essential Letters and Sounds Online is required to fully implement the programme with success in your school. The annual subscription includes daily front-of-class lessons via the whiteboard, plus support for teaching, assessment, timetabling and more.

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.

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ELS on Oxford Owl for Home - free resources for parents and carers

Parents and carers can visit the ELS page on Oxford Owl for Home to access free resources to help thier child's phonics at home. The free resources include How-to videos, Speed Sounds sheets to download, free eBooks, and handy guides.

Essential Letters and Sounds training

ELS training package

Purchase training to help you deliver high-quality teaching and maximise impact.

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If you want to know more about Essential Letters and Sounds, your local Educational Consultant can support you. Book an appointment now for whenever is most convenient.