The Ministry of Education is publishing Ready to Read Phonics Plus books, which have been developed with researchers at the University of Canterbury’s Child and Wellbeing Research institute. They are provided at no cost to schools from term 1, 2021, along with teacher support materials and online resources.
These early readers will be incorporated into the foundational texts for Reading Recovery and Early Literacy Support. They have been designed to advance children’s ability to decode words and to gain meaning from text, and, along with support materials including a scope and sequence (“scope” is the breadth and depth of knowledge and skills to be taught; “sequence” provides the order of content and skills), will support teachers to use a structured literacy approach to teaching reading.
Reading Recovery training will be updated to incorporate the Ready to Read Phonics Plus resources and supporting approaches, to enable Reading Recovery teachers to work with small groups of children needing literacy support, as well as those requiring 1:1 support. Reading Recovery teachers will also receive guidance on how they can contribute to cross-school literacy strategies, so that more children benefit from their knowledge and expertise.
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