So, you have heard the terms "Structured Literacy", "Decodable Texts", "Phonological Knowledge" and want to know about them and how it works.

That is how this website happened. To create a place that has lots of info collected together, but sorted into categories that hopefully are easy to navigate .

In NZ there is a groundswell of teachers wanting information about teaching this way as there is a growing concern that we have readers who are not reaching expectation as texts become more sophisticated.

The Structured Literacy approach has been developed on the research of scientists who have investigated the brain science of how we learn to read. This has been brought together in the body of work called “The Science of Reading.” It is based on how the brain puts sounds and text together to enable reading comprehension.

Dip into the research first as this is a research based approach and success is reliant on teacher knowledge, then come back to the How To Get Started page.

Good luck

Kath (Just a classroom teacher)