Jasmine Millward (RTLit)
For all the resources that Jasmine has shared with our kāhui ako regarding literacy.
Webinars
SL Online Hui#1
Explicitly Teaching Vocabulary during a Picture Book & The Better Start Literacy Approach
SL Online Hui#2
Introduction to orthographic mapping and practical ways to implement it into your classroom.
SL Online Hui#3
Teaching Reading Fluency
Must have Documents
SL Hui #5 – A Structured Approach to Spelling 1/7/22
Tamara Dahm (Massey University) has shared to slide deck from her PLD about the importance of a structured approach to spelling.
Building Word Knowledge
This block activity
helps give learners a bridge from the abstract to the concrete. The blocks
form a bridge between the abstract concept of phonemes and the concrete representation with graphemes.
SL Teacher Talk Bubbles
Scripted steps in sequence to help guide a SL session.
2022
- Building Word Knowledge Activity – using blocks and cards
- SL Teacher Talk Bubbles from Tamara Dahm
- Teaching Sequence Planning Template
2021
- Teaching Fluency (Hui#3)
Useful Videos
The Speech Sounds of New Zealand English – Emma Nahna
A demonstration of the sounds in NZ English.
Phonics Plus
Videos exploring each of the Phonics Plus Stages by CORE Education.
The Brain Prize Presents: Stanislas Dehaene
Prof. Stanislas Dehaene talks about how reading takes place in the brain.
Sunshine Decodables
Professional development video about using decodables. Suitable for kaiako and parents.
(Currently you need to make a request to view – click here).
Phonics Video 6 – Blending and Articulation
By CORE Education using Phonics Plus.
Ready to Read Phonics Plus Video Guides
The Overview videos introduces the whole series and explains the scope and sequence it follows.
Click here for various videos
Useful Websites/Online Resources
Better Start Literacy Approach
The Better Start Literacy Approach, is an integrated classroom literacy approach for Year 0/1 classrooms to support children’s early reading, writing and oral language success.
Learning Matters
Leap Into Literacy
Learning Matters provides bite-sized and practical foundational literacy activities you can do with your children.
Sound Foundations – Emma Nahna
Emma’s YouTube channel has great videos including the ‘Teach Blending not Blends’ video mentioned in SL Hui#2
The Education Hub
A resource developed in partnership with Tātai Angitu at Massey University, led by Dr Christine Braid. It provides examples of how the principles of effective literacy instruction in early primary school can be enacted in the classroom.
Phonics + Stuff
Great free website for free resources/tools online when teaching reading. Including tools for older students such as a morpheme mapper.
UFLI Literacy Toolbox
Fabulous free resources to support you in the classroom.
TKI – Literacy Online
Resources for the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Series.
Really Great Reading Letter Tiles
Online letter tiles that can be good for online learning.
Phonic Books UK
Lots of great free resources to support SL and a range of books for older readers.