This digital slide deck is a specialised handwriting instructional tool for teaching the New Zealand Basic Script, a practical alphabet designed for speed, legibility, and automaticity. Updated 2026. Optimised for short, 10–15 minute daily sessions, these slides guide students through the specific movements and patterns required to master handwriting. Note: These slides are…
This resource provides simple and practice activities to send home to emergent readers who follow the Ready to Read Phonics Plus scope and sequence. It covers Tupu—Seedling 2 readers. These resource sheets can be printed and glued in a home learning book to accompany the corresponding home reader from the Phonics Plus range. …
We’ve put together a bundle of activities to reinforce spelling rules for Year 1-8. The resource bundle has been organised and partitioned according to spelling rules and phonics concepts so that these activities can be matched up with your school’s current spelling scope and sequence. Alternatively, following our sequence as provided will give your…
This resource provides simple and practical activities to send home with emergent readers who follow the Ready to Read Phonics Plus scope and sequence. These Kākano 3 resource sheets can be printed and glued in a home learning book to accompany the corresponding home reader from the Phonics Plus range. In this pack, you…
This resource provides follow-up activities for a selection of 6 Turquoise/Purple Level 18-19 PM readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities…
These teaching slides are created to help you teach the key spelling rules for Phase One: First Six Months – During Year 1. Transform your literacy lessons with the Structured Literacy Spelling Rules Slides: Phase One! Designed to align seamlessly with the Transcription Skills – Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho – The English Curriculum, this…
These activities have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of nine target sounds and letters. The sound and letters included in this set are the following single consonants or short vowel sounds: l, e, c, f, u, b, g, r, h With initial modelling and scaffolding, these activities are intended to…
These Phonics and Structured Literacy teaching slides have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of the nine target sound and letters. This teaching tool could be used as a warm-up at the start of a structured literacy session, as revision or as a whole class lesson. Both PowerPoint and Google Slides…
This resource provides follow-up activities for a selection of 12 Green Level 13 PM readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities…
This resource provides follow-up activities for a selection of 6 Blue Level 11 readers found in New Zealand and Australian schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities featuring a…
Our 42 engaging Punctuation multi-choice task cards will grab your students’ attention and help to improve their writing. These English Language Arts Literacy cards include capital letters, periods/full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes, and quotation marks. Each card is numbered so students can keep track of the cards they have completed. Students…
Learn more about Māui, Hatupatu, and Paikea with our differentiated Māori Myths and Legends Shared Reading and Discussion Questions Bundle. This Māori Myth and Legends resource is suitable as an entry point to Polynesian history or a study on myths and legends from around the world. This shared reading, activities, and discussion question bundle features…
Help your students to learn about Tuvalu with our five-page activity sheet. It features eleven activities, and is ready to PRINT and GO! This would be perfect to use during Tuvalu Language Week. Activities included are: 1. Fill in the gaps (cloze reading) 2. Wordfind 3. Snapshot 4. Letter Writing 5. Vocabulary 6. Fact…
Our New Zealand Junior Activities Bundle covers the fascinating topics of Waitangi Day and the Treaty of Waitangi, Anzac Day, Matariki, and Kiwiana. Each pack features a range of practical resources to explain these great topics in a Junior School context: Shared Reading Resource Print and Go Activity Sheets Vocabulary Wall Cards Our New Zealand…
These teaching slides are created to help you teach the key spelling rules for Phase One: During the Second Year. These structured literacy spelling rules slides will transform your literacy lessons. Designed to seamlessly align with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho —The NZ English Curriculum, this resource brings the principles of structured literacy…
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