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Last updated: 24 October 2024
Implementing a structured literacy approach also requires a set of resources, such as games and manipulatives. Here are a selection of NZ based businesses selling resources to complement a structured literacy approach. These may also include online systematic structured synthetic phonics apps. See our separate entry on decodable readers for a list of suppliers of those.
Please note that we do no endorse any of the suppliers listed here. We are merely providing these details as a starting point for your own evaluation of teaching resources.
Note that the Ministry of Education also provides free to all schools the Phonics Plus Ready to Read series of teaching resources, including the decodable book series, sound cards, video guides and supporting games. Copies may be ordered from Ministry of Education Customer Services, online at www.thechair.co.nz; by email: orders@thechair.minedu.govt.nz; or freephone 0800 660 662.
Agility with Sound and Wordchain Apps
Love Literacy Mount Maunganui - Yeet card games plus other free activities and games
Mahi by Mahi - Te Reo Māori structured literacy resources, including kāri and decodable pukapuka.
Ōhinerangi Rauemi Reo Māori - Te Reo Māori structured sentence builders.
Sound Foundations for Literacy
Spellcaster - online systematic synthetics phonics platform tailored for upper primary and lower secondary students. Provides fully customisable lesson plans.
StepsWeb - online systematic synthetic phonics platform.
Sunshine Books - Sunshine Books has 180 decodable books (both fiction and non-fiction) along with teachers books and plenty of free resources, including a free assessment kit. They also have decodable books for both struggling older readers and for confident older readers who have completed a structured literacy programme.
UFLI Foundations - The UFLI Foundations Toolbox is free and contains all the lesson resources to accompany the lesson plans provided in the UFLI Foundations manual. Foundations is an explicit and systematic phonics programme. Every lesson has companion resources that will help you implement the lessons efficiently, effectively, and consistently. Some of the companion lesson resources include: lesson slide decks (in PowerPoint and Google Slide formats); decodable passages; homework sheets; games and activities for additional practice.
