Ready to Read Phonics Plus books support the explicit teaching of phonics-based word recognition knowledge and skills. Children learn to crack the written code of how letters relate to sounds, alongside learning some high-utility words and kupu Māori and developing language comprehension.
Ready to Read Colour Wheel books support guided reading with small groups. They are designed so that children build their comprehension strategies as they respond to text and think critically, alongside reinforcing and continuing to develop their word recognition skills.
Ready to Read texts/storybooks can be accessed and downloaded as PDFs on this webpage. Many texts also include Teacher Support Materials and audio files.
You can find out more information about how to use these books here:
- Ready to Read Series: https://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/Literacy-Online/Planning-for-my-students-needs/Instructional-Series/Ready-to-Read
- Learning to read: https://parents.education.govt.nz/primary-school/learning-and-development-at-home/learning-to-read/
- Ideas to help with reading, writing and maths: https://parents.education.govt.nz/primary-school/learning-and-development-at-home/ideas-to-help-with-reading-writing-and-maths/
Ready to Read texts
Phonics Plus
- Tap, Tap
- Pop, Pop in the Pot
- Tāne and the Bug
- Nan in a Net
- Rat on the Rug
- Get to the Vet
- Weka Gets Wet
- Weka in the Shed
- Chit Chat
- Huhu in the Mud
- Zip and Zap
- Wet Kai!
- Hoot hoot
- Swim Day
- A Batch of Pancakes
- Weka in a Flap
- Frog in a Log
- Weka Helps Out
- A Fun Quiz
- The Long Swim
Colour wheel
- Big Machine Boogie
- Bread
- Bubbles
- Camouflage
- Chinese New Year
- The Crocodile’s Christmas Jandals
- Dawn Parade
- Dragons! Dragons! Dragons!
- Greedy Cat
- Haere Atu!
- How Kiwi Saved the Forest
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Lost
- Matariki Breakfast
- Monster’s Lunch
- New Zealand Birds
- Splish Splash
- Stick Insects
- The Three Princesses
- Wētā Went Walking
- Wheels
- Will They Float?
