Re-imagined by Ellie Hallett, these 15 stories are formatted in rows for take-it-in-turn reading for partners and small groups. Everyone has equal reading time.
Each story can be used in many different ways:
as a teacher reading to a group or class
for out-loud partner togetherness reading
read silently or performing for an audience.
To see sample pages, click on each book title in the group lists below.
The emotions are felt, the tensions are high and the excitement is real in these read-out-loud stories that take readers and listeners into live-theatre action.
Advanced readers add their own flourishes; less able readers love the action so much they move ahead well beyond what was thought possible.
It is recommended that two or more copies of each set be purchased for ease of partner/group reading. You can buy them as sets of 5 or 15 as detailed below.
Oral Language in Action for Pre-Schoolers and Pre-Readers
Vitally important aspects of pre-school oral language literacy are covered here, including conversation development, vocabulary usage and extension, being able to recite rhymes, see and name the detail in picture talks, and maintain focus when listening through verbal comprehension.
All are tucked in together with lots of laughter and fun.
“Your child will need well-developed communication skills when it’s time to start going to school – to make friends, learn new things, and start learning to read and write.
“About one in 10 children needs help developing normal speech and language skills. Without help, it’s a struggle to listen and talk, it’s difficult to learn to read, and it’s hard to play with other children.”
“Communication skills are critical to your child’s future success.”
Quotes from a pre-school speech and services organisation.
Oral Language in Action for Beginner Readers
Oral language is not only essential for literacy development – it influences all our social and academic outcomes, plays a vital role in our self-talk – and helps define the sense of who we are. It is our tool for learning, thinking and being.
This book provides the busy teacher with practical easy-to-implement ideas to promote and invigorate oral language in the classroom.
The sounds of language (i.e. phonics) are introduced here as you’ve never seen them before. Written exercise suggestions are a small side salad rather than the main course. (Learners will love not having to fill in another worksheet or push a pencil for long periods of time.)
Every page enables learning to be vigorous, emotionally satisfying, thorough and successful.
Oral Language in Action for Budding Actors
All children love to pretend to be someone else, and this book gives them the goods to be confident speakers, able thinkers and imaginative participants in all sorts of energetic group and partner activities, the likes of which you have never seen before!
Be prepared for laughter and magical moments, so surprises, novelty and the unexpected are unabashed features of this book.
It has been designed so that there is something for everyone, but it will be especially appreciated by talented and gifted learners because of ‘the-sky-is the-limit’ ideas within its pages.
Briefly, this book will help develop:
speech clarity and word articulation confidence
visualisation skills for better reading and listening comprehension
vocabulary enrichment and usage
performance skills
memorisation abilities
self-expression confidence in both school and personal life
independence of thought
concentration, perseverance and the ability to stay on-task
social skills in working with and in a group
the ability to engage with others in conversational interactions
improvisation and creative language abilities.
The learning is rigorous, the expectations high and the suggestions often fanciful – but the outcomes will be extraordinary. This book explodes with ideas that will turn your learners into confident and articulate speakers and users of English.
This series of books offers teachers practical ways to help make the school day much more productive and a lot more enjoyable. Specialist research findings on all sorts of topics have been coupled with decades of the author’s classroom experience.
The Science of Reading, Word Knowledge, Speech Clarity and Vocabulary
This is highly imaginative teaching as you’ve never seen it before.
The learning possibilities in the Manual are not only full of variety, they are rigorous and enjoyable to implement.
The Student Book has immediate visual and oral language appeal for even the most reluctant learner.
The Teaching Manual has creative and deep learning lesson ideas for the forty five rhymes – there is a year of lessons in this book. Click the covers for examples.
This book is a visual feast, delighting children by taking them into the wonderful world of butterflies, beautiful plants, rhyme and counting.
There’s a surprise hiding on every page for sharp-eyed readers.
The vivid illustrations will encourage children to linger and talk about the details, enhancing observation and vocabulary development skills in a joyful setting.
The life-cycle of a butterfly and activity pages are included as other fun features.
Suitable for home and early childhood education, this book would also make lovely gift.
Available as single book purchases, or scroll down for good-deal sets.
Read, write and understand English – these books are suitable for beginners through to adults.
For classrooms, home-schooling, private tutors and self-learners.
Click here for My Book of Charts – off the wall and on your desk charts – which reinforces this series. Ideal for students to download and use as a reference they will soon find indispensable.
This book has 56 examples of letters that have a new sound when placed together.
The words and sentence examples demonstrate where digraphs are found in words. This concept helps learners see these letter combinations more clearly. The result is more fluent and accurate spelling and reading.
Homophones have the same sound but a different spelling and meaning as in aisle, I’ll and isle. Teachers and students will find this collection particularly valuable.
Heteronyms have the same spelling but a different meaning, pronunciation, and/or part of speech, as in the noun and verb, record and record.
Only three letters in the alphabet are never silent in English.
Over 200 words, pictures and sentence examples are here to help spelling accuracy become the norm. Repetition of the reading and writing of these words is encouraged.
Hard copy 24 pages AU$35 (incl p&p in Australia)
Reference books for teachers and advanced students
Every sound in English with its letter and letter groups has been arranged for easy access and high-level understanding.
The 53 IPA letters are an extremely useful resource for all teachers and advanced students, especially those learning English as an additional language.
As the name suggests, the Nuts and Bolts book provides ideas, suggestions and a multitude of ways for the time-poor teacher be able to present a whole raft of high-powered lessons to strengthen the Reading Works series.
The information is easy to read, and topics can be cherry-picked to suit the requirements of the teacher.
See the look inside for a list of contents and how it is that teaching ‘a for apple’ can cause problems.
As a demonstration of how many lessons can be achieved from just one row of one book in the Vowels to IPA series, click here.
A4 hard copy 90 pages AU$65 (incl p&p in Australia)
Sets of Books – special price
Set 1: Vowels, Consonants, Blends, Digraphs, The Schwa, Contractions
Purchase this 6 book SET at the special price of AU$250 (incl P&P in Australia). Please note that all books in this set are A4 landscape, wire bound.
Set 2 – Uncountables (plural nouns without s), Homophones and Heteronyms, Silent Letters, A-Z Letters and their Sounds, IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) – every sound in English and all their written letter patterns.
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Set of 5 Reading Works books
Purchase this 5 book SET at the special price of AU$200 (incl P&P in Australia). Please note that all books in this set are A4 landscape, wire bound.
Set 3 – The 11 book set
Set of 11 Reading Works books
Purchase this set of 11 Reading Works books at a special price of AU$500 (incl P&P in Australia). Please note that all books in this set are A4 landscape, wire bound.
You will also receive a FREE PDF copy of the 90 page Nuts and Bolts Literacy Teaching Manual.
All reading and speaking begins with a clear understanding phonics. These beginner books of Phonic Awareness do just that.
Perfect for schools, home and teach-yourself
Click on the cover images for Look Inside and ideas on how to use these books.
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Price for both Books 1 and 9: $18.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for both Books 2 and 10: $13.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for both Books 3 and 11: $13.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for both Books 4 and 12: $13.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for both Books 5 and 13: $13.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for both Books 6 and 14: $13.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for book 7: $8.00 (plus p&p)
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Price for book 8: $18.00 (plus p&p)
The teaching ideas book is FREE with an order for the 13 titles in this series.
Buy the whole set and save
One set of all books plus the free Lots and LOTS of teaching ideas: $80.00 (a saving of $11) plus p&p
Each vowel (and the y as a vowel) is featured in its own pair of books – and there is a book for teachers/parents/tutors with lots and LOTS of ideas from which to draw.
These books are recommended in pairs, with the first book giving the basic sounds of English, and the second book (the reader) providing sentences to enhance fluency, meaning and understanding. (See below for the background to this series.)
Loud Phonics books are for classrooms, self-teaching, homeschool, English as an Additional Language, ESL; based on the Vygotsky teacher-as-expert philosophy. Phonics means sound. The Loud Phonics Series of 8 books is based on sound to teach beginner readers phoneme-grapheme correspondences in an entertaining way.
Additional books 9 to 14 – are the respective READERS which expand the themes and put the new words into sentences to give understanding and context.
Phonic/grapheme accuracy, oral language, speech clarity, the breathing of reading, creative thinking, comprehension, word knowledge, listening skills, vocabulary, handwriting protocols, widening general knowledge and memory development are some of the many learning possibilities that can be incorporated while using the Loud Phonics Series.
These books have been written to be thorough, to provide a feeling of lively enjoyment and success along the way for all ability and age levels, and to be instantly appealing to be read, reread and love.
All the basics, from vowels, consonants, CVC words to more complex words are here. Each of the books in this graded series provide the beginner reader with all the elements needed for learning to read. Parents and class teachers will be surprised at how children are not only highly motivated to read, but at how rapid is their progress.
See below for background on this series.
Click on book covers for Look Inside examples. Every book in this series has 16 pages.
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Background of the Teach Yourself to Read series
Teach Yourself to Read is a series of 15 books taking the teacher/parent guided student from the sounds of vowels and consonants through decoding CVC words and into more complex word structures – all the while providing a joyful and sometimes quirky approach to learning these vital first steps to reading English.
The books increase in complexity from simple words up to compound sentences – all the while improving decoding skills, understanding, vocabulary growth and fluency. They offer structured learning as well as a sometimes quirky approach to entertain, and present multiple teaching/learning experiences.
As the name suggests, the Nuts and Bolts book provides ideas, suggestions and a multitude of ways for the time-poor teacher be able to present a whole raft of high-powered lessons to strengthen the Reading Works series.
The information is easy to read, and topics can be cherry-picked to suit the requirements of the teacher.
See the look inside for a list of contents and how it is that teaching ‘a for apple’ can cause problems.
As a demonstration of how many lessons can be achieved from just one row of one book in the Vowels to IPA series, click here.
Click here to downloadthe free PFD as your personal copy of Nuts and Bolts Literacy Teaching Manual. This Manual is not to be copied in whole or part thereof or on-sold to any other party or organisation now or in the future. By clicking to download this free copy you agree to the above conditions.
