Ready to Read Phonics Plus are new books that enhance the existing Ready to Read Colour Wheel series.
In order to become effective readers, students need to be able to:
The Ready to Read Phonics Plus books focus on word recognition knowledge and skills that explicitly support children to crack the code. These books focus on decoding and sight recognition of familiar words alongside building language comprehension knowledge and skills.
The existing Ready to Read Colour Wheel books focus more on helping children to make meaning and think critically.
It's important to have both the Phonics Plus and the Colour Wheel books so that all children have access to approaches that help them to be successful readers.
Schools with children in years 1–3 will receive copies of Ready to Read Phonics Plus and Ready to Read Colour Wheel books. Other schools can order copies of the books and teacher support materials through Down the Back of the Chair.
Please note: Over the coming months we are making changes to guidance and resources on Literacy Online to ensure that the additional focus on decoding is reflected in our advice.
The Ready to Read Phonics Plus books are underpinned by a scope and sequence framework. "Scope" is the breadth and depth of content and skills to be taught; and "sequence" provides the order in which it is taught.
The books are designed to teach the reading of English, and the letter-sound correspondences in English. Although kupu Māori are also decodable, and teachers can use the teaching of consonant sounds across both kupu Māori and English words, the vowel letter-sound correspondences in te reo Māori are not covered in the scope and sequence.
The kupu Māori can be introduced alongside other English high utility words where children use their knowledge of known letter-sound patterns as well as visual recognition and meaning to help them read the words.
These animations walk you through two Ready to Read Phonics Plus Kākano | Seed phase books – Get to the Vet and Nan in a Net – introducing the books and describing how you would use them with children.
Looking for our latest resources?
An online catalogue has been created for Instructional Series.You'll find Teacher support materials (TSM), audio files and digital copies of the text where available.
