Description

Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities featuring a range of reading and fine motor skills. This resource provides follow-up activities for nine of the current Ready to Read Phonics Plus Kākano Seed 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.

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!

Find Volume One of our Ready to Read Phonics Plus Kākano Seed activities here.

In this pack you will receive:

1. 18 engaging follow-up activities (two per reader):

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

The readers that have included are:

Mud, Mud, Mud
In the Bin
A Wet Ant
Bug in the Hut
Nat and Pip
Pop and Mop
To The Top
Pip and Tom
I Am In

Click here to access PDF versions of the readers.

2. A range of engaging activities including:

creating new words using letter tiles
matching words and pictures
sequencing the story
beginning sounds
word families
simple cloze activities
word finds
making personal connections

Each book in the series has two pages of activities to match the instructional focus. Teachers can choose for students to complete one or both of the sheets, depending on the goal of the lesson.

The activities have been created to specifically match the focus sounds taught in each book. There are also QR codes for students to listen to the book again, and decoding and writing practice activities.

With initial modeling and scaffolding, these activities are intended to be completed independently to build students’ skills in following instructions, fine motor skills, and stamina to complete a task.

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

Answers have not been included.

Find Volume One of our Ready to Read Phonics Plus Kākano Seed activities here.