Free decoding and encoding resource for primary teachers
The research case for structured, levelled texts for struggling readers and ESOL students aged 8–12
This free white paper by Dr Christine Braid sets out the research foundations behind the Story Seekers literacy series and the evidence for its use with students reading below year level or learning English as an additional language.
Drawing on the Simple View of Reading, the paper covers how the series controls for readability, vocabulary demand and sentence complexity to support genuine reading progress, not just access to simpler text. It makes a clear, research-grounded case for why developing readers need the right texts, and how Story Seekers provides them.
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