Overview

  • Year Levels F–4
  • Curriculum ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA, NZ
  • Subject Literacy
  • Resource Formats Print, Digital
  • Learning Focus Modelled reading, Independent reading, Take-home reading, Intervention

What it is

Rapid Reading is an intervention solution ideal for:

  • students reading below grade level expectations
  • students with special education needs.

Rapid Reading Starters is designed for students at the lower reading age of 5–5.5.

Rapid Reading Stages 1–9 is designed for students at the reading ages of 5.5–10 years.

The specially chosen fiction and non-fiction readers have been carefully levelled, are fully decodable and feature topics and themes that engage even the most reluctant of readers.

How it helps

Learners

Reading made fun: Books include jokes, prompts, quizzes, and background information on topics and themes they’ll love reading about.

Positively reinforced progress: The more students read and comprehend course texts, the more rewards they earn.

Be prepared for challenges: Challenging words are introduced at the start to help students when they find them in the text.

Educators

Time-saving teaching guides: In-depth teaching guides for stages 1–3, 4–6 and 7–9 contain guided reading lesson notes and suggestions for speaking and listening.

Support for differentiation: Included follow-up activities extend comprehension, spelling and writing skills to ensure students make progress.

Easily assign work for class or for home: All readers are available as eBooks on ActiveLearn Primary and include detailed notes for families.

Why it works

Road tested by children, for children to be engaging and fun
Used by over 2 million teachers and students worldwide
Proven to make 30 months of progress in reading in just 18 months

What it includes

Discover how Rapid Reading helps students improve reading ability from school and home.

Rapid Reading

Decodable readers

Rapid Starters and Rapid Reading texts support and challenge struggling readers through:

  • high-interest, age-appropriate topics
  • decodable fiction and non-fiction readers
  • dyslexia-friendly fonts and design
  • text features to support with challenging words and provide background information to help comprehension
  • quizzes and discussion prompts to reinforce learning and strengthen comprehension.

All Rapid readers are available in print or digitally as eBooks.

Rapid Reading

Benchmark books

Benchmark books for each stage mirror the look and feel of the readers and are designed to be read for assessment after the readers of the same level

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Teaching resources

Rapid Reading includes a variety of teaching materials to support varied ways of learning. These include:

  • comprehensive teaching guides, including reading notes and suggestions for speaking and listening
  • detailed notes for teachers and families on the inside front and back covers of each reader
  • recommendations for follow-up activities that extend students’ comprehension, spelling and writing skills.

Rapid Reading Digital

A supportive online world

With a single login, students can access books, games and activities from the classroom or home that include:

  • a read-to-me function to demonstrate fluent reading and hook students into the text
  • audio-only instructions to make activities less intimidating and difficult
  • activities designed to help develop decoding and comprehension.

Rapid Reading Digital

Activities geared towards success

Students build confidence away from the classroom by:

  • earning rewards as they read and comprehend
  • receiving increasingly helpful feedback with each wrong answer
  • accessing audio prompts for individual words (up to Stage 6) when they get stuck
  • complementing at-home reading with a phonemes and graphemes pronunciation guide.

Rapid Reading Digital

Versatile teaching resources

ActiveLearn Primary’s online platform allows you to:

  • easily find and utilise a wealth of teaching material
  • utilise in-depth planning, assessment, and reporting tools
  • search and allocate readers to students
  • track, assess and report on students’ reading progress.

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