An A4 grade-specific Core Reader that includes:

• Daily activities for 8 weeks of every term

• Colour coded page labels that indicate the week and day of the week

• End-of-term revision tables that list all phonics, vocabulary and high frequency words covered

• Scaffolded activities designed to develop:

  • phoneme-grapheme recognition;

  • blending and segment skills;

  • orthographic mapping (retention and quick recall of words);

  • language building (vocabulary and language structures)

  • word building;

  • reading fluency;

  • written comprehension skills

The FAL readers are theme-based and aligned to the Anthology stories that teachers read to and discuss with learners. This allows for multiple engagements with the same vocabulary and language structures in authentic contexts – critical for language acquisition and comprehension.

Importantly, our FAL Core Readers are also designed to develop learners’ FAL decoding and encoding skills. The books are structured to follow simple daily routines and repeated activities in order to allow learners to focus on the content of the activity.

The Core Readers are referenced in the Teaching Plans as part of the Shared Reading and Group Guided Reading lessons. During Shared Reading lessons, the teacher explicitly models the activities and the reading skills. During Group Guided Reading, learners complete the daily activities before moving on to read a Levelled Reader.