Overview

  • Year Levels F–2
  • Curriculum ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA, NZ
  • Subject Literacy
  • Resource Formats Print
  • Learning Focus Synthetic phonics and decodable readers, Modelled reading

What it is

The Jump Rope Readers series gradually and systematically introduces beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction.

How it helps

Learners

Entertaining narratives: Encourage a love of reading by connecting learners with a rich world of fun and familiar characters and settings.

Systematic development: Gradually build learners’ coding abilities through a scope and sequence that aligns to most phonics programs.

Representative: Allow learners the chance to recognise themselves in the books they read, which in authorship, themes and characters accurately reflect our beautifully diverse world.

Educators

Effective, evidence-based teaching practices: Teach children to read using resources informed by recent research into phonics and the science of reading.

Used alongside any phonics program: Easily integrate this series into your existing practice with letter-sound correspondences that correlate to a range of existing phonics programs.

Flexible formats: Print and digital formats of each decodable reader ensures teachers can use the format best suited to their classroom needs. 

Meet the author

Lucy Calkins

As Founding Director of the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, Lucy Calkins spearheaded the development of impactful teaching methods and empowering professional development resources. Over 30 years in the making, the Lucy Calkins Units of Study have earned a reputation as state-of-the-art resources.

What it includes

66 decodable books and six accompanying read-alouds, split between two classroom sets.

Jump Rope Readers

Set A

  • 30 decodable books (6 copies of each) that introduce short vowels, consonants, bonus letters, blends, digraphs, CV words, and a small selection of high-frequency words
  • 6 read-aloud books
  • ‘Getting Started’ guide
  • Digital access to the readers.

Purchase of Jump Rope Readers includes access to digital resources.

Upon purchase, please contact Pearson at help@pearson.com.au to receive your licence.

Jump Rope Readers

Set B

  • 36 decodable books (6 copies of each) that introduce silent E, inflectional endings, vowel teams, R-controlled vowels, diphthongs, consonant -LE, soft C and G, the jobs of Y, multisyllabic words, and a broader selection of high-frequency words
  • ‘Getting started guide’
  • Digital access to the readers.

Purchase of Jump Rope Readers includes access to digital resources.

Upon purchase, please contact Pearson at help@pearson.com.au to receive your licence.

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