Ready to Read Phonics Plus Phase 3 - Māhuri | Sapling
Māhuri l Sapling is the third phase of learning in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series.
About this resource
This page provides an overview of the Māhuri l Sapling phase of learning. Māhuri l Sapling is the third phase of learning in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series.
Ready to Read Phonics Plus – Māhuri l Sapling Phase
Māhuri l Sapling is the third phase of the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series. When students reach the end of Māhuri | Sapling, they move onto the final phase of the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series Rākau | Tree.
Students’ independence using the foundational skills taught at Kākano | Seed and Tupu | Seedling is starting to grow. Texts are longer and now include a variety of sentence structures and punctuation.
Māhuri | Sapling texts are designed to support students to practise skills they are now familiar with:
- Decoding (segmenting and blending) with the scope broadening to include the alternative spellings of long vowel sounds.
- Comprehending more complex story lines with a clear plot structure, including a problem and resolution.
- Expanding vocabulary to include topic and interest words.
Watch the following video for an introduction to the Māhuri | Sapling phase of Ready to Read Phonics Plus.
Māhuri | Sapling details
The Māhuri | Sapling phase overview shows the suggested order of the books, the focus sounds, words to blend, and kupu Māori for each book.
You can download a digital copy of the Māhuri | Sapling phase overview. Go to the“About this resource section” at the top of the page.
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- Māhuri-Sapling-Overview (.pdf)
Māhuri | Sapling introduces:
- Suffixes: -ing -ed -es
- Alternative spellings of long vowel sounds: ai, ay, ea, igh, ie, oa, ow, oe, ew, ue.
- -r controlled vowel sounds: ar, or, er, ir, ur, ear, air, ere.
- Alternative spellings for sounds (phonemes) already encountered at Kākano | Seed and Tupu | Seedling: ea (for example bread), ph, -ge, (soft g).
- Diphthongs (where two vowels slide together within a single syllable): ow, ou, oy, oi.
Māhuri | Sapling books include increasing numbers of non-decodable highly predictable topic and interest words which are likely to be in a reader’s oral vocabulary. This includes both high frequency English words, and kupu Māori | Māori words and phrases commonly used in New Zealand classrooms (for example kia kaha). Gagana Sāmoa is introduced in book 12, Tinā Visits.
Gagana Sāmoa and kupu Māori | Māori words are highlighted in the teaching notes in the back inside cover of the books.
Māhuri | Sapling books contain the following new high frequency words:
love, find, about, own, should, were, there, why, water, come, other, hear, down, people, our, was, ready.
Māhuri | Sapling has seventeen decodable student books.
Ready to Read Phonics Plus books have teaching notes inside the back cover. These provide ideas about how you can use the books to engage your students with word recognition and ways to build language knowledge.
You can access the Māhuri | Sapling books via the carousel at the bottom of this page. The suggested teaching order of the Māhuri | Sapling books, along with their focus is:
Sports Day – ing
Dipped in Mud – -ed
Rain is a Pain – ai
Stay! – ay
Splashing in the Stream – ea
Night Lights – igh
Weka’s Boat – oa
Follow me – ow
Flax on the Farm – ow
Nat’s First Game – ir
Lurking in the Dark – ur
Tinā Visits – ear, air, ere
Photo Time – ea, ph
Hide and Seek – ou
The Fastest Toy – oy
A Play Date for Huhu - revision of Māhuri | Sapling.
The Best Place to Rest - revision of Māhuri | Sapling.
Māhuri | Sapling books in suggested teaching order
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Sports Day - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the suffix -ing.
1 of 17Dipped in Mud - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the suffix -ed.
2 of 17Rain is a Pain - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph -ai.
3 of 17Stay! - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph ay
4 of 17Splashing in the Stream - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph ea
5 of 17Night Lights - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the trigraph igh
6 of 17Weka's Boat - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph -oa.
7 of 17Follow Me - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph -ow.
8 of 17Flax on the Farm - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the sound -ar.
9 of 17Nat's First Game - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph -ir.
10 of 17Lurking in the Dark - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph -ur.
11 of 17Tinā Visits - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the trigraphs air ear ere
12 of 17Photo Time - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraphs -ea and -ph.
13 of 17Hide and Seek - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the sound -ou.
14 of 17The Fastest Toy - Māhuri
This Māhuri text focuses on the digraph oy
15 of 17A Play Date for Huhu - Māhuri
This Māhuri text revises all sounds and spellings from the Māhuri | Sapling phase.
16 of 17The Best Place to Rest - Māhuri
This Māhuri text revises all sounds and spellings from the Māhuri | Sapling phase.
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