Story Seekers is Essential Resources’ answer to “How to help struggling readers?” These are a variety of fiction and non-fiction chapter books aimed at reluctant readers. The books take an integrated literacy approach through:
Our blogs introduce you to the Story Seekers series. You will gain ideas for further literacy support – ways to develop fluency or comprehension strategies for NZ students. As you read our blogs and explore our English resources, you will discover Essential Resources is your language and literacy hub.
Few skills are more important in today’s world than reading. Yet, even though it is crucial, reading literacy has tracked downwards in New Zealand in the last 20 years. So how can we support struggling readers and build reading confidence?
Leaning on his time as a teacher, Paul Mason, highly published children’s writer, reflects on how he puts the child at the heart of what he writes – wanting children to see themselves in his stories.
Students with dyslexia struggle to learn to read and spell. Compared with their peers (of the same intelligence, age or year level), dyslexic students progress at a slower rate and participating in reading, spelling and writing activities involves much more effort for them.
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