Ready to Read Phonics Plus Big Book Combo – The Boat Race and Frog Finds a Home

Description

We have created activities to accompany the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Big Books: The Boat Race and Frog Finds a Home. These books introduce the characters that will be found in many of the Kākano, Tupu, Māhuri and Rākau Ready to Read Phonics Books.

We have created 24 follow-up activities for the two Ready to Read Phonics Plus Big Books:

• The Boat Race – 12 activities
• Frog Finds a Home – 12 activities

Activities include creating compound words, using and understanding suffixes, vocabulary activities (English and te reo Māori), a word find, cloze activities, syllable counts, finding the problem and solution, exploring characters, and more.

• There are also QR codes for students to view videos about the specific instructional foci or about the themes of the text.
• With initial modelling and scaffolding, these activities are intended to be completed independently to build students’ skills in following instructions and developing fine motor skills and stamina to complete a task.

This resource is intended to accompany the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series. This series is available in all New Zealand schools and on the Tahurangi website (https://tahurangi.education.govt.nz/).  The activities have been carefully designed to enhance the teaching that occurs in a shared reading context and give independent practice to the skills taught.