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The Literacy Hill | Literacy Services for Children & Parents

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Here at The Literacy Hill, we provide quality literacy services for preschool/primary children and their parents in Perth including literacy tutoring & parent coaching.

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Sunshine Phonics Decodable Books Australian Series with real stories using words that children can read!​ A Decodable Program to help all children learn to read The program teaches children phonics…

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While the instructional quality of the books is most important to me, the fact that my students love the books is a huge bonus. On many occasions, I have had students eagerly ask me as soon as they see me, "Have you brought the next book?"

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Phonic Books - Decodable Books for Beginner and Struggling Readers

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Decodable books and workbooks for beginner readers and older struggling readers. Systematic synthetic phonic reading books and resources.

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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:

"crack the written code" in texts

make meaning from texts

think critically about texts.

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.

Scope and sequence framework

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.

Kupu Māori in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus books

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.

Introducing Ready to Read Phonics Plus

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.

Transcript - Get to the Vet

Transcript - Nan in a Net

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.

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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: "crack the written code" in texts make meaning from texts think critically about texts.

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Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding.

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The Building Blocks of Reading Success A3 Poster PDF, Resources ...

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Found on Google from learningmatters.co.nz

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Carolyn Strom, Professor of Early Childhood Literacy and Innovation at NYU, discusses her research and interviews with pre-school teachers and how students learn to read, her view on the science of reading and the cognitive science behind it all. She shares her insights on the importance of neuroscience, culturally responsive teaching and dives into Linnea Ehri's four phases of learning how to read.

Quotes:

"Our brains are not wired to read...we have to do a neurological backflip to teach our brains to read."

"You can't think about a tree without thinking of its environment the same way you should not be thinking about a kid's reading development without thinking of their environment."
Resources: Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Stanislas Dehaene Carolyn Strom NYU Bio

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Science of Reading: The Podcast. Episode 9 - Carolyn H. Strom, PhD

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Carolyn Strom, Professor of Early Childhood Literacy and Innovation at NYU, discusses her research and interviews with pre-school teachers and how students learn to read, her view on the science of reading and the cognitive science behind it all.

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Aouad, J. and Savage, R. (2009). The component structure of preliteracy skills: Further evidence for the simple view of reading. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 24 (2), 183-200.

Catts, H., Adlof, S., and Weismer, S. (2006). Language deficits in poor comprehenders: A case for the simple view of reading. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 278-293.

Gough, P., Hoover, W., and Patterson, C. (1996). Some observations on a simple view of reading. In C. Cornoldi and J. Oakhill (eds.), Reading comprehension difficulties: Processes and intervention (pp. 1-13). Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

*Gough, P. and Tunmer, W. (1986). Decoding, reading, and reading disability. Remedial and Special Education, 7, 6-10.

Hoover, W. and Gough, P. (1990). The simple view of reading. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, 127-160.

*Kamhi, A. (2007). Knowledge deficits: the true crisis in education. ASHA Leader, 12 (7), 28-29.

*These articles are short and easy to read.

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The Simple View of Reading is a formula demonstrating the widely accepted view that reading has two basic components: word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension. Research studies show that a student's reading comprehension score can be predicted if decoding skills and language comprehension abilities are known.

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International Dyslexia Association - ...until everyone can read!

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We help parents and teachers to support children who experience dyslexia, dyscalculia or language and maths based learning differences.

Our belief is that all dyslexic children in New Zealand have the right to receive and benefit from evidence-based literacy education.
Our practices are founded on and align with the Orton Gillingham approach.

Learning Matters provides specialist learning support for students and families who wish to invest in extra literacy and or mathematics instruction. We specialise in support for students aged 4 years to adult.

We also consult with schools and education centres. Our work grows understanding about how children learn best and supports schools to put in place a consistent, evidence-based pedagogy rather than intervention programmes in isolation.

We want to change the status quo of evidence-based literacy and mathematics instruction across the country. We believe in the importance of aligning support outside the classroom with teaching in the classroom. Building teacher knowledge and practice on the classroom floor is necessary. This is where schools make the biggest difference to a child's learning potential.

Early intervention is crucial. We cannot wait until a student is in Year 2, 3, 4, let alone Year 10 to determine they are experiencing difficulties.

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Learning Matters | Because learning differences exist | NZ Wide

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We help parents and teachers to support children who experience dyslexia, dyscalculia or language and maths based learning differences. Our belief is that all dyslexic children in New Zealand have the right to receive and benefit from evidence-based literacy education. Our practices are founded on and align with the Orton Gillingham approach.

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Visual Metaphor for the Reading Brain by Carolyn Strom

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Visual Metaphor for the Reading Brain by Carolyn Strom

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Advancing Science of Reading in the Early Years - K–5 Literacy Program & Curriculum | Amplify CKLA

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The Reading Brain | How We Learn To Read

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Science of Reading  & When you know better, you can do better. 

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Science of Reading  & When you know better, you can do better. 

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See How Phonics is the Foundation for Comprehension