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Recommended Resources for Read Easy Reading Coaches

Note to Literacy Specialists: Please note that to help you choose and buy resources, this document provides live links to publishers’ websites.

Suggested contents for a ‘Reader & Coach Starter Kit’ We highly recommend that you provide all your Reading Coaches with a ‘Starter Kit’ – a few suggestions are provided below.

Resource Publisher Price

A welcome sheet explaining where your Resources Box is kept, what it contains and how to borrow resources. (You could also mention that Consolidation Training will help Coaches to use resources.)

Mini Whiteboard and pen Various types available online or on the high street. *

Powerof2.co.uk

Autopress Education

Consortium * see notes overleaf

£12.50 for 10

£1.50 each

£15.99 for 10

A set of ‘Alphabet Cards with pictures’, printed and cut up.

(There are also plenty of other printable alphabets that can be downloaded from the internet.)

Downloadable from the Read Easy website

Paper, pencil with rubber, and ‘Post-it’ notes

Some spare Reading Record sheets Downloadable from the website

* These mini whiteboards are a very good design, as they are lined and have a printed alphabet at the top to provide a guide for forming the letters. They can be bought in packs of 10 or 30 from the school suppliers, Consortium, but you will need an account number to order. You should be able to get an account number by emailing and explaining that you are a voluntary group not a school.

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Ideas for your Resources Box Overleaf, we provide a range of ideas of things you can buy. However, there are plenty of resources that you can download from the Reading Coach resources tabs on the website to get your box started. All the resources on the website have been designed specifically to complement the Turning Pages programme. Some of them will be available to view and try at the Initial and Consolidation Coach training days.

Ideally, your box would contain one set of everything available, but we would encourage you to start with at least those resources designed to go with Manual 1. Please make sure you remind your Coaches to explore the resources available on the website and to ask you if they need more printed out.

It would be particularly useful if you can print out one set of each of the Handwriting Packs (see below) for the Resources Box so that Coaches can see what is available.

You may also like to have in your box:

● Pack of coloured pipe cleaners – for making the letter shapes to help those Readers who learn by touch

● Small mirror – for practising phonics and watching shape of mouth

● Social Sight Words on cards (the Dolch or Fry lists on Read Easy website could be used as a guide for making cards)

● A ring binder containing:

● List of what should be in the box

● ‘Library lending’ book to record what is borrowed and who has borrowed it

● Examples of downloadable resources from other websites, such as BBC Skillswise

● Copies of catalogues from Barrington Stokes, Gatehouse Books, Forward with Phonics, etc.

Your Regional Adviser can offer support and ideas about which resources may be most useful and how you can use them at Coach Meetings.

Letter and ‘initial blend’ cards, bingo, domino and other games,

are all available from the website, along with blank templates

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Recommended resources to buy for your Resources Box

Resource Publisher Price

Pack of 10 multi-colour reading rulers

Crossbow Education (from Amazon)

£10.78

Set of 46 Turning Pages reading books Shannon Trust

Word Maps by Margaret Bevan Partners in Education

£18.00

BBC Teach Skillswise

This English section of the BBC Teach website has a range of useful worksheets, some of which could be printed for your Resources Box.

We recommend Coaches explore the website to find what is most useful for their Reader, as there are also useful video clips to watch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise/english/zjg4scw needs hyperlink

‘Nice to have’ Recommendations Please note: this is not an exhaustive list. Please also see the Reader Resources and Coach Resources pages on the Read Easy website.

TRUGS 1 (& 2, if affordable)

https://www.readsuccessfully.com/

needs hyperlink

£71.99

Lower Case Wooden Letters

Upper Case Wooden Letters

Tactile letters (fabric, mirrored, magnetic, sandpaper, etc.) You may find any of these on Amazon, or in a High Street shop such as ‘The Works’ more cheaply.

www.wordunited.com stock ‘Bijigs’ lowercase letters.

www.tts-group.co.uk have a range of phonics resources, including wooden letters, fabric letters, mirror letters

£11.98

Sandpaper letters (lower case)

Eduzone.co.uk £13.70

Wooden letter cubes Pandahall.co.uk £1

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A Cloze Thing – workbook by Brown & Brown

Gatehouse Books £4.00

Filling in Forms – Photocopy Master (PDF)

Gatehouse Books £18.00

There is now a growing range of reading books for adults to choose from…

King Street Readers Each book features one house on King Street and its inhabitants. The books are illustrated. They are very short and designed to be read in one session. Set One books have a word count below 100. The accompanying exercises may be completed over several weeks.

Gatehouse Books £60.00

Forward with Phonics resources:

Phonics Resources for Older Learners (photocopiable resources) by Frances Woodward

Phonics Stories for Older Learners

The Drop-In Series (18 books centred around a community drop-in centre + support materials pack)

Forward with Phonics

£45.00

£25.00

£55 + £25

Readwell Road series A series of books for adult learners working at entry level of Adult Core Curriculum – 48 stories in 4 steps

Readwell Road £70-£90 per set of 12

Ransom Books – Neutron Stars series 30 books for struggling teen and adult readers, structured in levels, offering a progressive reading programme to develop skills, with a mixture of fiction and non-fiction titles.

Ransom Books Starting at £6.25

Sample readers

e.g. ‘The Lift’ (£4) plus ‘The Lift Exercises’ (£4.50)

Gatehouse Books £8.50

Look at Spirals books on Amazon