Oxford Handwriting
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Oxford Handwriting for NSW

Third edition | NEW

Oxford Handwriting for New South Wales is a brand-new comprehensive program for K–6, which has been written for the NESA syllabus and supports a phonics-aligned approach.

The order of letters in the Year K book is aligned with the Letters and Sounds phonics sequence, so that students learn to write the letters as they are learning to read them.

For Years 1 and 2, the letters are grouped by shape, using words and phrases that are fully decodable. For Years 3 to 6, each book has an interesting and informative theme to engage the students as they learn cursive writing to improve speed and legibility.

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Oxford Handwriting for Victoria

New edition | Coming May 2025

Written to align with the Victorian Curriculum, Oxford Handwriting for Victoria is a brand-new comprehensive program for F–6 that supports a phonics-aligned approach to learning, so that students learn to write letters in the same order that they are learning to read them.

Oxford Handwriting for Victoria supports students in developing their letter formation skills alongside their phonic knowledge. For schools using Essential Letters and Sounds Australia phonics program, Year F follows the same order of letters.

In Years 1 and 2, the letters are grouped by shape, using words and phrases that are fully decodable for each level. For Years 3 to 6, each book has an interesting and informative theme to engage the students as they learn cursive writing and improve speed and legibility.

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Oxford Handwriting for Queensland

New edition | Coming May 2025

Oxford Handwriting for Queensland is a brand-new comprehensive handwriting program for F–6, written to align with the Australian Curriculum and supports a phonics-aligned approach to learning.

Oxford Handwriting for Queensland supports students in developing their letter formation skills alongside their phonic knowledge. For schools using Essential Letters and Sounds Australia phonics program, Year F follows the same order of letters.

In Years 1 and 2, the letters are grouped by shape, using words and phrases that are fully decodable for each level. For Years 3 to 6, each book has an interesting and informative theme to engage the students as they learn cursive writing and improve speed and legibility.

Student Workbooks

The Oxford Handwriting Interactive Tool

Each Oxford Handwriting series is designed to introduce and develop the fundamental skills of handwriting with explicit direct instruction. When taught and practised frequently, students will master a fluent automatic style. This complete handwriting series features information and reminders for correct posture, pencil grip and paper position, and plenty of opportunities to model and practise accurate letter formation and keyboarding techniques. For adopting schools, the Oxford Handwriting interactive on Oxford Owl allows teachers to explicitly model how to form letters from print to cursive joins.

Watch the interactive in action, here showing the New South Wales edition.

Develop the building blocks of handwriting

Oxford Handwriting is a series written to meet different handwriting conventions and approaches for New South Wales, Victoria/Western Australia and Queensland. For adopting schools, Oxford Handwriting offers full access to teaching support via Oxford Owl, including:

  • digital activities to support accurate and automatic formation
    of letters
  • more than 100 activity sheets for consolidation and practice
  • words from the Oxford Wordlist
  • recording and assessment templates.

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