Kit and Process
The Reading Revival reading scheme toolkit is designed to include everything you need to assess whether your child is ready to learn to read, and to potentially bring them to a level of reading fluency of approximately that of a 7 year old within a few weeks. The toolkit contents and process are as follows:
Instruction booklet
This is a short guidebook for adults, and is packed with handy hints on how to achieve complete success with the help of the toolkit.
It describes the process, providing further information on embedding reading skills during the course of the reading scheme and beyond, so that the process is fascinating, pleasurable, and ultimately very productive for both adult and child.
Shape and word cards
There are three sets of shapes and one set of words included in the shape and word card pack and are used before reading begins. If a child can recognise and match shapes, they are ready to recognise and match words, as this is the fundamental skill required when reading.
The cards will help you to decide whether the child is ready to read, designed as a fun game for the child. All children are different; some are curious and eager to read by the age of three, whilst other children do not develop an interest until later.
The 12 word cards are then introduced and the child learns to memorise what the words say. These words comprise the full text of the first book.
12 reading books
The reading books are unique because they have been carefully created to gradually present new words at an acceptable level to the child, whilst crucially ensuring that the words already learned are often revisited and practised. The words in the scheme have been meticulously chosen; some because they are words that children habitually find easy to learn, and others because the words occur often in language. This blend has been tested with many children over the years and has been found to deliver an accelerated level of learning.
Our research has also indicated that most young children prefer a reading scheme of books that contain a variety of different stories, rather than one series about the same subjects. These books are written with the child’s amusement in mind, and the stories have proved tremendously popular.
It is key to remember that you must not spend more than 10 minutes a day on the reading learning process, as the child must not consider reading to be a chore.
12 Stickers
The stickers are included to mark the achievements of the child along the road to reading, and provide constant opportunities to praise and celebrate the milestones when finishing each book. Children almost without exception love stickers, and as the child is awarded one when they have read a book, it is an important opportunity to remind the child of how well they are progressing.
For information on what's contained in the Reading Revival Toolkit for Teachers, click here