The Junior Journal is an instructional reading series for students who are working at early level 2 in the New Zealand Curriculum and reading Ready to Read texts at Purple and Gold.
The Junior Journal supports students to make the transition from individual Ready to Read texts to reading the Curriculum level 2 School Journal. Texts in the Junior Journal have fewer illustrations and denser text layouts to prepare students for reading longer texts. Junior Journal builds on students’ previous learning, encouraging fluent and independent reading behaviours on longer and more complex texts and providing opportunities to learn across the curriculum.
Teacher Support Material
Teacher support materials are available for most items in these Junior Journals:
Teacher Support Material
The format of the teacher support material for Junior Journals since Junior Journal 42 has been redesigned and is similar to those published for the School Journal.
These materials suggest ways that teachers can use the texts in instructional settings to support the learning needs of their students. They also illustrate deliberate acts of teaching (DATS) especially modelling, questioning, prompting, and explaining. The material also includes:
Audio
Some items from each Junior Journal will be produced as audio versions.
Audio versions of Junior Journal items are designed to:
The table on the back cover of each Junior Journal shows the items from the Journal have been recorded as well as which items have TSMs.
MP3 files will be available to download here soon after the JuniorJournals are distributed to schools.
The Junior Journal is provided to all primary schools. Additional or replacement copies can be obtained from: Down the Back of the Chair.
Junior Journal 45 distributed to schools in July 2012
Readalong 2012 - Ready to Read and Junior Journal 44 and 45 will distributed to schools in July 2012
Embedded Support for Audio
Read about our pilot project and take part in our survey
The Junior Journal is provided to all primary schools. Replacement copies can be obtained from: Down the Back of the Chair.
