Reading Resources
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Interactive reading activities that build phonemic awareness, comprehension, and word recognition. Students clap syllables, perform chants, and match words to pictures.
Wave-themed reading activities where students explore loud and quiet sounds. They practise spelling, perform a poem using dynamics, and sort images into loud and quiet while building comprehension and word recognition.
A tempo-themed reading activity where students explore fast and slow through storytelling, poetry, and sorting tasks. They retell The Tortoise and the Hare, read with expression, and sort images by speed to build comprehension and vocabulary.
A pitch-themed reading activity where students explore high and low sounds through sorting, storytelling, and a shared class book. They match sounds, create pages, and retell stories to build listening and comprehension skills.
A rhythm-themed reading activity where students clap syllables, sort words by beats, and sequence instructions to build rhythm and reading skills.
A harmony-themed reading activity where students explore how words, colours, and music work together. They sing and create rounds, match colour words in English and Te Reo Māori, and contribute to a shared class book about how colours create harmony.
Echo reading activities where students read, repeat, and make meaning. They perform echo reading, sequence a “cup phone” craft, and match words to pictures to build fluency, comprehension, and sight word recognition.
Students build reading skills through movement-based activities. They act out animal words, create a shared class book, and sequence simple sentences to build decoding, comprehension, and sequencing skills.
Students build early reading skills through sequencing, word meaning, and fluency. They order instructions, sort “up” and “down” words, and read a shared poem with rhythm and repetition.
Students build emotion vocabulary and reading skills by sorting feeling words, sequencing instructions to make a major/minor mask, and creating pages for a class big book exploring how music makes them feel.