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.
These Phonics and Structured Literacy teaching slides have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of six target sounds and letters: j, k, v, w, y, z. 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. …
This colourful set of 28 Homograph and Homonym 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…
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 Māhuri Sapling 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. …
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…
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,…
This colourful set of 28 Compound Sentence Task Cards helps students understand one of the key sentence structures. Print and laminate these task cards for regular use! These grammar-syntax activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR). This resource is a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. Activities link directly to the Common Core…
This colourful set of 32 Shades of Meaning Tasks Cards helps students to understand the words can have the same meaning but vary in their level of strength and intensity. Print and laminate these Shades of Meaning task cards for regular use! These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical…
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,…
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…
These Punctuation Power-Up activities are a great boost for those who need some extra practice of punctuation skills. This bundle includes the following resources: Punctuation Power-Up Activities | Capital Letters Punctuation Power-Up Activities | End of Sentence Punctuation Punctuation Power-Up Activities | Commas Punctuation Power-Up Activities | Speech Marks Punctuation Power-Up Activities | Apostrophes…
This colourful set of 48 Simple Sentences, Fragments and Run-on Sentences Task Cards helps students to understand one of the key sentence structures. Print and laminate these task cards for regular use! These grammar-syntax activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR). This resource is a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. Activities link…
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 Reclaiming Te Kōpua from the Connected Phase 3 Year 7 and 8 2024 text. 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…
Enhance Your Students’ Reading Comprehension with Science of Reading Principles. Develop your students’ reading comprehension with this comprehensive resource, focused on ‘Digging for Kauri Gum’ from the Level 2 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,…
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