Name: A Theme Tune - Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu Activities
Brand: Top Teaching Tasks
Price: 2.00 NZD
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Description

This resource provides follow-up activities and home-learning tasks for a new (March 2026) Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu Level reader: A Theme Tune 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:

A Theme Tune

These activities meet many of the requirements for the New Zealand Literacy Skills Progressions for Reading at the End of Year One. These are skills that your students need!

***This resource is provided in A4 paper size and British spelling.***

In this Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhuri Sapling pack you will receive:

1. Two engaging follow-up activities based on one reader (two per reader):

Each activity sheet has a QR code to an audio link and picture cues to help students understand their task.

2. Two home learning activity sheets

Each activity sheet features:

Focus sounds, words to blend and high-frequency words that are specific to the text.
Encoding practice of specific sounds in the text.
A practice activity, focusing on the decoding / encoding of the text OR a comprehension feature such as retelling, making personal connections or comprehending simple sentences.
Oral discussion questions, including a drawing to show comprehension prompt.
High-frequency word encoding practice.
Cloze activity for sentence-level comprehension

Texts Covered in this Resource:

A Theme Tune – Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu

Alignment with Te Mātaiaho: English in the New Zealand Curriculum

This resource has been created to carefully align with the teaching sequence and teaching considerations for Phase 1.

Please note: To use this resource, you need to have access to the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu Level readers. These are found in NZ schools and here.

Answers have not been included.