Ready to Reads
Here is a selection of audio recordings from the Ready to Read series. If your child has a copy of one of the books, they could listen to the audio as they read along.
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Bubbles
by Dot Meharry illustrated by Fraser Williamson |
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Shared Reading
The Ant & the Grasshoppersby Dawn McMillan
illustrations by Fraser Williamson This book for shared reading introduces the format of a play and is a retelling of the well-known fable. |
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Haere Atu!
by André Ngāpō illustrated by Vasanti Unka In this lively humorous story, lots of people are enjoying themselves at the beach when two hungry sandflies, Namu and Sandy, arrive looking for lunch. The sandflies are delighted to see so much exposed skin but not surprisingly, the beachgoers don’t want to be eaten! The text is enhanced by some Māori vocabulary, the meaning of which is strongly supported by the context. |
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Camouflage
by Andrew Gunn This non-fiction text describes what camouflage is and provides several examples of creatures that use it. The ideas in this book build on the ideas about camouflage in the shared book "Stick Insects". |
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Dawn Parade
by Philippa Werry illustrated by Jennifer Cooper This book presents a moving account of a child’s first experience of a dawn service. With his dad, Leo watches the marchers with their medals glinting, listens to the speeches and the “Last Post”, and joins in singing the national anthem. After the service, Leo and Dad leave poppies on the war memorial and read the names of those who have died. |
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The Crocodile’s Christmas Jandals
by Margaret Mahy illustrated by Gavin Mouldey The crocodile loves his new Christmas jandals. But while he is at a beach barbecue, the waves steal away one of his blue jandals and all he can find is a left-foot red jandal. Later in the week, the crocodile wears the odd jandals to a football match. He discovers that he is sitting next to a girl who is wearing his jandal! They are both delighted to have found their missing jandals, and as well as finding his missing jandal, the crocodile is very happy to have found a new friend. |
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Will They Float?
by Feana Tu‘akoi This shared book explores the concepts of floating and sinking and of “thinking like a scientist”. As well as reading this book for interest or to support specific curriculum topics, you can use it to build students’ awareness of the features of non-fiction. |
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Dragons! Dragons! Dragons!
by Feana Tu‘akoi illustrated by Donovan Bixley In this lively, humorous, big book for shared reading, four fiery dragons are having trouble making friends. |
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Wētā Went Walking
written by Kay Hancock illustrated by Fraser Williamson When Wētā goes walking in the bush, Rat decides to go hunting ... Will Wētā be safe? Does he know Rat is following him? |
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