Strengthen Primary Reading with Our Structured Literacy Resources
Designed to align with the Science of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope, our comprehensive language comprehension resources support a structured literacy approach. Develop essential skills in morphology, sentence structure, vocabulary, text structure, and grammar/syntax. Empower your students to become confident and proficient readers.
This colourful set of 36 Homophone Tasks Cards helps students to understand the meanings of words and how words function in sentences. Print and laminate these homophone task cards for regular use! These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. This set of…
Develop your students’ history content knowledge, reading comprehension, writing, and literacy skills with this comprehensive whole-class teaching resource, centered around early whalers and sealers in New Zealand. This resource is a perfect addition to your structured literacy program. It offers rich historical content and effective learning strategies. This teaching tool engages students through…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Kupe and the Giant Wheke from the Level 2 May 2020 School Journal. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. Enhance Your Students’ reading comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. This teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building,…
Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on the Taking Off article from Junior Journal 68. Great as an addition to your Year 3 structured literacy program. The Taking Off article explores the history of aviation, from hot-air balloons through to…
These Punctuation Power-Up activities are a great boost for those who need some extra practice of punctuation skills. This pack focuses on using apostrophes. We’ve provided two levels, easily identified by the handwriting or standard lines on the worksheet. This resource includes 16 activity sheets: Use Apostrophes in Contractions x 8 Apostrophes for…
Go paperless with our Vocabulary Digital Task Cards Mega Bundle. These Vocabulary Google Slides activities feature 346 interactive slides for students to work through and 60 teaching slides to introduce the concepts. This vocabulary resource bundle is suitable for Google Drive, Google Classroom, or Microsoft OneDrive (instructions included), and can be used on multiple…
This Ready to Read Phonics Plus bundle provides simple, practice activities to send home to readers who follow the Ready to Read Phonics Plus scope and sequence. It covers all readers in this series, from Kākano through to Rākau. These resource sheets can be printed and glued in a home learning book to accompany the…
Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on Running Wild from the Level 4 November 2024 School Journal. Great as an addition to your structured literacy program. This teaching tool engages students in deep comprehension strategies, vocabulary building, grammar, syntax, sentence structure, verbal reasoning, and content knowledge—key elements of the Science of…
This resource teaches the skill of paragraphing in writing. This resource introduces younger students (working at levels 1 and 2 of the curriculum, or years 1-3) to what paragraphs are, why we use them, and when we use them. It is designed to help students learn, remember and practice when to separate their sentences…
Our Year 7 Tier Two Vocabulary Explicit Teaching Slides are an engaging and highly effective resource for exploring word meanings. These slides work perfectly alongside your structured literacy programme, supporting students as they build a stronger vocabulary. Expanding vocabulary is critical to improving reading and writing skills, and research shows that students with larger vocabularies…
Our Type of Sentences Grab and Go pack helps you to teach four sentence types (based on function): statement, command, question, and exclamation. We’ve included vibrant posters, ready-to-go activity sheets, and interactive digital resources. These activities have been crafted to engage New Zealand students with sentences brimming with Kiwiana, te reo Māori and…
These Phonics and Structured Literacy teaching slides have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of ten vowel teams: ai, ay, ea, ie, igh, oa, oe, ew, ow, and ue. This teaching tool could be used as a warm-up at the start of a structured literacy session, as revision or as a whole…
This resource provides follow-up activities and home-learning tasks for four new (March 2026) Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhuri Sapling Level readers found in New Zealand schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Texts Covered in this Resource: Lani in…
This resource is designed to give students extra fluency practice. Project the slides on your classroom projector or TV, and you are ready to go! A full teacher script is built into the slides to help guide you through the resource. The words used in this fluency resource are aligned to the scope and…
Enhance your literacy teaching with these teaching slides focusing on key spelling rules for Phase One.These slides are crafted to help you build strong literacy foundations through a structured literacy approach. These structured literacy spelling rules slides align perfectly with the Transcription Skills—Spelling strand of Te Mātaiaho – The NZ English Curriculum. They emphasise oral language, reading (decoding), and writing…
This resource is designed as a decodable text for older readers (year 4 – Year 8). It focuses on earthquakes and their impact on New Zealand. Focus Phonemes and Graphemes: It has a particular focus on v_e split digraph words, including a_e, e_e, i_e, and u_e split digraphs. Examples include earthquake, plate, magnitude, shake,…
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