Further resources

Teacher Support Materials
The teacher support materials (TSM) for both the Junior Journal and Ready to Read provide additional support for teachers to match texts with students. The TSM describe important text characteristics and provide guidance about how teachers can use the text to maximise students’ learning. They suggest ways to introduce the texts and to monitor and support students as they build their reading processing systems and think critically about what they are reading. The TSM also provide information about related texts within the series, including links between texts for shared reading and guided reading, and between instructional reading and the wider classroom literacy programme.
Guiding questions He pātai
- How familiar am I with the materials in the Ready to Read and Junior Journal series?
- How familiar am I with Effective Literacy Practice in Years 1 to 4 and Guided Reading: Years 1 to 4?
- When selecting texts for my students, to what extent do I consider the text criteria listed on pages 2 and 3 (familiarity and explicitness of content, and so on)?
- How can I ensure that my students have maximum opportunities for problem solving their own way through a text? What does this mean for my guided reading planning?
- How can I best use the teacher support materials to help my planning?
> Further reading
Ministry of Education. (2002). Guided Reading: Years 1 to 4. Wellington: Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2003). Effective Literacy Practice in Years 1 to 4. Wellington: Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2010a). The Literacy Learning Progressions. Wellington: Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2010b). The New Zealand Curriculum Reading and Writing Standards for Years 1–8. Wellington: Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2011). “Shared Reading: Meeting The Diverse Needs Of Students”. Education Gazette. 21 November 2011
Ministry of Education. (2014). “Ready to Read turns 50”. Education Gazette. 24 February 2014