Reading Lesson
Using our Fitzroy.
Why Fitzroy?
Phonetics based
 Complements a whole language
programme
 Ensures reading success due to learning
being built slowly.
 Ensures children learn their alphabet and
letter sounds thoroughly.
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From the Beginning:
Children need to know at least 13
alphabet names and sounds before they
begin the first book.
 Reading is based on alphabet activities
when the children first begin.
 Our first book is “The Fat Cat”
 There are 60 books in the programme
and each builds on to skills learnt and
introduces another.
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A Typical Lesson
Reading Warm-up
 Big Book
 Group Tumble
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Fitzroy Lesson
New letters (for early readers) or new
sounds (diagraphs or single letter sounds)
 Special words and any
 New words whose meaning may need to
be explained
 Reading the book together
 Follow-up sheets
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Typical Tumble
FITZROY TUMBLE: P.WATKIN
FITZROY TUMBLE: P.WATKIN
FITZROY TUMBLE: P.WATKIN
GROUPS
Blue Stars
Magenta
Green Stars
Magenta
Red Stars
Yellow Stars
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KAURI 1
MONDAY
Red Stars
WEDNESDAY
N/A
THURSDAY
Homereading
Let’s Go
Homereading
Hickory Dickory Dock.
Fitzroy-alphabet sheet
C.Wheel- Let’s Go
Fitzroy-alphabet sheet
C Wheel- Let’s Go
Fitzroy- alphabet sheet
C Wheel- Let’s Go
Homereading
Power Point Book.
Homereading
The Boat
Fitzroy
Day 9
C Wheel- The Boat
Ready to Read – Emergent
Homereading
Old Tuatara
FitzroyDay 10
C Wheel- Old Tuatara
Homereading
What do I see?
Homereading
LunchBoxes
Fitzroy
Day 11
C WheelWhat do I see?
FitzroyDay 12
C Wheel- LunchBoxes
WALT: Make links between illustrations & print
Fitzroy Book: N/A
Here is the classroom, here
are the kids.
Fitzroy-alphabet sheet
C Wheel- Let’s Go
WALT: Sounding out the individual sounds in a word to identify the word.
Book 1
FRIDAY
POETRY
RESPONSE
Here is the beehive.
Ready to Read - Emergent
Homereading
Here is the beehive.
Fitzroy Book:
Yellow Stars
TUESDAY
Term 1 WEEK 4
WALT: Relate pictures to print. Front & back of book
Fitzroy Book
Blue Stars
WEEKLY READING GROUP PLAN
BIG BOOK
RESPONSE
Greedy Cat is Hungry.
Acting out the story as a
play.
Running Records
Ready to Read -
Big Book
Greedy Cat is Hungry.
Critical Thinking
How do you think the
family felt when they found
out that Katie had fed the
cat?
Print Conventions
Fullstops
Vocabulary
Finding here.
Poem
Here is the Beehive.
Anthology
Talking & Listening
When are there capital
letters?
Rhyming
Alphabet
Magenta 1.
Web Site Book
Power point story based on
style of the Let’s Go.
-for school
- for swimming.