The "Oxford Literacy Web" is a literacy programme designed to guide schools successfully through the primary years. It fits the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales, English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum in Northern Ireland. The series aims to guide pupils through the core skills associated with learning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry. The "Fiction" strand of "Variety" stories extends children's experience of different styles of fiction. They reinforce vocabulary but include a more challenging element to push upward toward the next level. Starter Stage Pack A is a pack of wordless stories for beginning readers to develop book knowledge and practise language skills. The "Stories We Know" cluster consists of 3 amusing retellings of traditional stories and rhymes by Keith Gaines, while the "Teddy and Me" books are original stories by Maire Buonocore about a young girl and her toys. The books are available in both standard and "big book" format.