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3 Key Benefits of Using the Ready to Read Series in Your Primary School Classrooms
The Ready to Read Series should be a staple in every New Zealand classroom. The series consists of six workbooks with language-focused activities to help students improve their reading and comprehension skills.
The Ready to Read workbooks go with the Ministry of Education’s “Ready to Read” stories. Each workbook has activities to support different texts within the series. After your students read a story, they can use the workbook to practise skills like:
- Matching words and pictures
- Following a sequence
- Alphabet recognition
- Word identification
- Drawing and roleplay
- Cloze; word endings
- Locating information from text
- Reinforcing basic vocabulary
- Identifying word shape
If you are a primary school teacher, using the Ready to Read workbooks as supplementary teaching material can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of your reading curriculum. Take a look at some of these amazing benefits!
Teaching Students to Interpret Deeper Meaning
Books and stories are filled with important metaphors, analogies and deeper meanings that breathe new life into the written words. Understanding what these are and how they contribute to the story is a skill that students will use throughout the rest of their educational careers.
As students move through the Ready to Read workbooks, they will encounter questions and challenges that encourage them to uncover deeper meanings within the text. By the end of the workbook series, they will be able to do this in an increasingly independent manner.
Improving Other Skills Through a Balanced Reading Programme
The Ready to Read workbooks cater to all kinds of learning styles in your classroom. Traditional reading curriculums demand that every student uses verbal skills to learn reading comprehension. The workbooks use verbal, visual, critical thinking and social activities to help students understand those stories.
Encouraging Personal Responses
As students grow and progress as readers, they will be asked to personally reflect on texts and relate them to specific events in their lives. Many primary school teaching resources fail to teach this essential skill and instead push young students to think inside the box.
The Ready to Read Series does the opposite. The follow-up activities in the reading workbooks encourage students to come up with personal responses. This is one of the most challenging comprehension skills to teach. Helping primary school students understand how to draw personal conclusions will benefit them throughout their schooling.
Get the Ready to Read Workbooks for Your Classroom
The Ready to Read workbooks are an essential primary school teaching resource as they reinforce critical decoding, sequencing, comprehension and retelling skills for young students of all reading levels. Edumaxi’s User-Friendly Resources has all six workbooks following the Ministry of Education’s primary school reading level system. Titles in the series include:
- The Early Ready To Read Workbook (Magenta to Green) – Up to 1999
- The Ready To Read Workbook (Orange to Gold) – Up to 1999
- The Next Early Ready To Read Workbook (Magenta to Orange) 1999-2003
- The More Ready to Read Workbook (Magenta to Gold) 1998-2007
- The Ready to Read Again Workbook (Magenta to Gold) 2007-2015
- The Ready to Read Workbook (Magenta to Gold) 2016-2020
User Friendly Resources have proudly equipped kiwi teachers with quality teaching resources for over 25 years. All of our resources are developed by teachers, for teachers, with a distinctly student-centric approach to learning. Explore our full range, find out more about us or get in touch online if you have any questions.
