GUIDED READING LESSONS, DONE AND DUSTED:
Without the long hours of planning and tearing your hair out
Has organising guided reading lessons left you time poor, overwhelmed, and exhausted? As a teacher myself, I understand the demands of teaching and all feelings that come with planning.
How would it feel to have one incredibly exhausting task, done for you? It would feel fabulous right?
Imagine having access to levelled readers that your students want to read, and are written to teach your students to read? Not only that, activities, to match the readers, all at your fingertips!
No more worrying about creating activities, or about the tasks being aligned to the Australian Curriculum – it has all been done for you! Oh, and did I mention, differentiating for students in your class – sorted!
JAM PACKED WITH TEACHING GOODNESS
560 online, fun sequential readers
Engaging stories children want to read
Online quizzes to check their comprehension
FB community and email support
Resources for every reading level
GET YOUR STUDENTS READING WITH...
five fabulous Collections, guaranteed to get your students reading!
THE KINDY KIDS
A collection of:
- Four sets of readers full of rhythm and rhyme
- Each set includes 4 ‘Read to Me’ stories and 12 ‘Read with Me’ short readers for students to practise reading.
- Students meet The Rainbow Pigs, Freddy and Toad, Henry Hippo and Friends and Lolly and Lenny
A total of 64 readers
FUN WITH PHONICS
A collection of:
- 7 Shared Readers – designed to introduce beginning sounds of letters
- 26 Read together readers – designed to explore each letter of the alphabet and encourage student reading.
Coming soon: ENGAGING decodable readers
PREP
A collection of:
- Levels 1 to 8 readers
- Levels 1 to 3 include four sets of eight readers
- Levels 4 to 8 include two sets of eight readers
- Students will rediscover unique BORN2READ characters from the Kindy Kids Collection and will meet new characters.
A total of 176 readers
YEAR ONE
A collection of:
- Levels 9 to 16 readers
- Levels 9 to 14 include two sets of eight readers
- Levels 15 and 16 include four sets of eight readers with readers linked – just like a chapter book!
- More new characters are introduced, and some old characters are back for more fun.
A total of 160 readers
YEAR TWO
A collection of:
- Levels 17 to 24 readers
- Each level includes two sets of eight readers
- All readers are linked – each reader is a chapter in a story!
- New characters are introduced
A total of 128 readers!
PLUS!
Access to the Teachers’ Lounge that includes:
activities to match every reader, to practise reading and writing skills.
activities for independent work whilst you work with a small group.
learning intentions and success criteria, aligned with the Australian Curriculum.
posters, flashcards, sight word booklets and fun with phonics booklets to print.
checklists for tracking students’ reading, sight word bank and phonemic awareness.
templates for guided reading, reading and writing goals – just to name a few!
WILL IT WORK FOR MY CLASS?
With our straightforward reading program, you will quickly be catering for the diverse needs of your students.
And… you can relax knowing that ALL the elements (not just the phonics and phonemic awareness) from the Scientific Research of Reading are evident throughout the program.
No more guessing about where to start – each collection is levelled.
No wasted time searching for suitable readers – they are all online, ready to go!
Just lots and lots of readers and activities at your fingertips!
And best of all, no games, or gimmicks to distract your students – it’s reading without the noise!
So… how do you know BORN2READ will be successful in your classrooms?
Because it’s been trialled in classrooms within Australia, and you have told me what you want:
Online program with readers and planning guide
Comprehension questions
Questions with sentence starters to encourage writing
Checklist for students to track their progress.
Explicit reading strategies to teach and monitor
Engaging sight word resources: booklets to send home
A full reading program to get boys excited about reading and writing
Australian curriculum aligned
Engaging writing activities to match all readers – JUST ABOUT DONE!
Purposeful and concise
Printable resources such as reading strategies, decoding strategies
Engaging decodable readers – COMING SOON
HOW IT WORKS
BORN2READ provides online, leveled, sequential readers for children to practise reading. Resources found in the Teachers’ Lounge, focus on 5 key areas to help your students learn to read more effectively:
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Fluency
THE TEACHER BEHIND THE BRAND
Hi, I’m Katrina Casey, the founder of the BORN2READ online reading program.
I am a passionate teacher (qualified and registered), and my absolute obsession, is to help teachers teach their students how to read and write. In fact, I took ten years away from the classroom, to explore and research how to teach children to read and write, in the most engaging way possible.
This hiatus led to the establishment of BORN2READ! I set up tuition centres on the Gold Coast and, with the help of other teachers, parents and some amazing classes of students, I wrote collections of stories (readers) to engage students in reading. Each reader has been road-tested by the children that they have been written for. If the children didn’t like the story, it didn’t make to the website.
Having seen the success of BORN2READ in my tuition centres and in the classrooms that helped on this journey, I returned to the classroom to see first hand, the BORN2READ experience. The amount of hours that BORN2READ has saved me in the classroom, and as a Learning Support Teacher, has been incredible – the ten years away from a school setting, has been well and truly worth it.
My Qualifications:
Master of Education
Bachelor of Education
Diploma of Teaching
GUARANTEES
Over 1000 children have learnt to read with BORN2READ
Teachers using BORN2READ noted a more engaged experience for their students
Students in my Prep classes have achieved more consistently better reading results than other classes.
When used in Learning Support, over 70 children improve their reading of up to 10 levels.
THE COST
You will save so much TIME and heartache, and your students will love learning to read (and spell!!).
Imagine, with access to every BORN2READ Collection, you tailor-make your guided reading sessions around the diverse needs of the students in your classroom TODAY!
BONUSES
When you become a BORN2READ family member, you will have access to email support from me! I am here to ensure the teaching of reading in your classroom is effective and successful.
FAQs
Prep to Year Two. Also, if children are struggling to read in Year Three, it can also be used to cater for their needs.
Yes and you can monitor their progress too.
Yes, if you have purchased home access for students ($12.95 per student, per year)
Yes there are variety of activities for each reader, accessible through the Teachers’ Lounge.
Yes. There is an overview for each year level (Prep, Year One and Year Two), highlighting the elements of the Australian Curriculum that have been addressed.
Yes, this activities provided to support the readers and to develop writing skills, have been written using ACARA’s latest English Curriculum.
Teachers can easily tailor this program to best suit their learners. The readers can be read by the whole class, in small groups or individually.
The stories have been written by me, Katrina Casey (MEd, BEd, Dip T). I am a Queensland registered teacher with over thirty years’ experience. Previous curriculum programs that I have written include Practical Outcomes (2002-2005); Everything English (Outcomes-based Program); Towards Essential Learnings – English (2009) and Monitoring Maths (2008).
Absolutely! Once you join the BOR2READ family, you will have access to the instructions to do this.
Yes, there is a subscription for students to purchase to access BORN2READ at home. Currently the subscription for students is $12.95 per year.
Absolutely!! We have a closed Facebook Group especially for BORN2READ Teacher members. There is also email support when needed.