Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhuri Sapling Activities | Junior Primary NZ

Description Save your time and know that your students are completing follow-up activities featuring a range of reading and fine motor skills. This resource provides follow-up activities for the current Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhuri Sapling Level readers found in New Zealand schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Contains volume one and two.   These activities meet many of the requirements for the New Zealand Literacy Skills Progressions for Reading at the End of Year One. These are skills that your students need! ***This resource is provided in A4 paper size and British spelling.***   In this Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhuri Sapling pack you will receive:   34 engaging follow-up activities based on 17 readers (two per reader): Each activity sheet has a QR code to an audio link and picture cues to help students understand their task. Stories included in this resource are: Sports Day Dipped in Mud Rain is a Pain Splashing in the Stream Flax on the Farm The Best Place to Rest Letter to Samoa Nat’s First Game Hide and Seek Weka’s Boat Stay Lurking in the Dark Photo Time Night Lights – new Follow Me – new Tinā Visits – new A Play Date for Huhu – new The Fastest Toy – new Click here to access PDF versions of the readers.   2. A range of engaging activities including: Creating new words using letter tiles Matching words and pictures Sequencing the story Word families Target word cloze activities Word finds using target words Finding detail in the story Making text-to-self connections   Each book in the series has two pages of activities to match the instructional focus. Teachers can choose for students to complete one or both of the sheets, depending on the goal of the lesson.   The activities have been created to specifically match the focus sounds taught in each book. There are also QR codes for students to listen to the book again, and decoding and writing practice activities.   With initial modeling and scaffolding, these activities are intended to be completed independently to build students’ skills in following instructions, fine motor skills, and stamina to complete a task.   Please note: To use this resource, you need to have access to the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Māhiri Sapling Level readers. These are found in NZ schools and here.   Answers have not been included.