Overview

Rigby Literacy, Blueprints and Literacy Collection provide guided reading and benchmark books, teacher resources, authentic fiction and non-fiction titles, audio materials, and more to ensure students develop strong literacy and critical thinking skills.

  • Year Levels F–6
  • Curriculum ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
  • Subject Literacy
  • Resource Formats Print
  • Learning Focus Modelled reading, Shared reading, Guided reading, Independent reading, Take-home reading

What it is

Rigby Literacy is a guided reading series for Lower Primary.

Rigby Literacy Collections, for Middle and Upper Primary, focuses on text types/genre study with guided reading and writing.

Rigby Blueprints is for Middle and Upper Primary and has inquiry-based units that explicitly teach literacy skills in the context of exploring big ideas/topics.

All three Rigby series support:

  • critical thinking and idea formulation
  • engaging reluctant readers with relevant content
  • building literacy across diverse skills levels.

What it includes

Discover the complete resources the Rigby Literacy Series offers teachers and students.

Rigby Literacy

Rigby Literacy Early

Rigby Literacy Early contains:

  • Guided reading books that cover a range of fiction and non-fiction subjects across seven fiction and four non-fiction titles. Sequentially organised and easily managed, they build on high- frequency words, sight vocabulary and phonics.
  • Benchmark books that make assessing students’ progress easy.
  • Teacher resource books which provide support for planning and implementing a comprehensive literacy strategy for your classroom catering to diverse abilities.
  • Blackline master books which contain activities designed for independent learning, as well as small guided reading and writing groups.
  • Listening post blackline masters and CDs that contain recordings of fourteen selected texts from the series.

Rigby Literacy

Rigby Literacy Emergent

Rigby Literacy Emergent contains:

  • Guided reading books that cover a range of fiction and non-fiction subjects across seven fiction and four non-fiction titles. Sequentially organised and easily managed, they build on high- frequency words, sight vocabulary and phonics.
  • Benchmark books that make assessing students’ progress easy.
  • Teacher resource books which provide support for planning and implementing a comprehensive literacy strategy for your classroom catering to diverse abilities.
  • Blackline master books which contain activities designed for independent learning, as well as small guided reading and writing groups.
  • Listening post blackline masters and CDs that contain recordings of fourteen selected texts from the series.

Rigby Literacy

Rigby Literacy Fluent

Rigby Literacy Fluent contains:

  • Guided reading books that cover a range of fiction and non-fiction subjects across seven fiction and four non-fiction titles. Sequentially organised and easily managed, they build on high- frequency words, sight vocabulary and phonics.
  • Benchmark books that make assessing students’ progress easy.
  • Teacher resource books which provide support for planning and implementing a comprehensive literacy strategy for your classroom catering to diverse abilities.
  • Blackline master books which contain activities designed for independent learning, as well as small guided reading and writing groups.
  • Listening post blackline masters and CDs that contain recordings of fourteen selected texts from the series.

Rigby Literacy Collections

Rigby Literacy Collections student books

Rigby Literacy Collections is a 12 phase award-winning literacy series for middle and upper primary students with comprehensive support for guided reading and writing. Each phase contains student books and teacher resources, consisting of:

A collections anthology which consists of:

  • fiction and non-fiction titles
  • magazine-style articles
  • short stories
  • fictional extracts from a variety of genres.

Guided reading books which are linked with the anthologies, and cover:

  • short stories
  • chapter books
  • non-fiction books
  • picture books
  • designed for both independent and group learning.

Rigby Literacy Collections

Rigby Literacy Collections teacher resources

Teacher resource books which provide support for planning and implementing a comprehensive literacy strategy for your classroom catering to diverse abilities.

Teach a wide range of genres within your classroom with:

  • detailed notes for guided reading and writing
  • learning centre activities
  • independent skills-based work cards
  • practical assessment tools such as checklists and running records.

Blackline master books which:

  • build on students’ comprehension skills
  • help consolidate writing, spelling, and grammar skills
  • contain activities designed for independent learning
  • include activities for small guided reading and writing groups.

Listening post blackline masters and CDs that:

  • contain recordings of 14 selected texts from the series
  • independent activity cards
  • comprehension worksheets.

Rigby Blueprints

Big Ideas Book and CD

The Big Ideas Book sets the scene for each unit of work. Designed to start off each class, the Big Ideas Book and CD includes:

  • the ‘challenges’ to be learnt from each unit
  • anthology style texts and articles ('Pacing Texts') featuring a variety of text types
  • an interactive CD with activities and assessment tasks.

Rigby Blueprints

Guided Reading Book

The Guided Reading Book is designed to help teachers target the right materials to students’ skill levels, laid out in a clear format. It includes:

  • a levelled reading guide
  • a variety of text types.

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Topic Books

The Topic Books include five books per unit, consisting of a mix of nonfiction and fiction texts. These are all linked to the Big Ideas Book for further investigation, and include:

  • contemporary Australian and global content reflecting local and world issues
  • a variety of reading levels to cater for differentiated learning.

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Teacher’s Resource Book

The Teacher’s Resource Book helps save time and makes lesson preparation easy, with:

  • options for whole class or small group teaching
  • teaching notes and activities for each text
  • literacy skills and thinking level charts
  • running records and skills activities blackline masters
  • highly structured teacher support with step-by-step instruction
  • assessment information including rubrics.

Rigby Blueprints

Listening Post Audio CD and Blackline Masters

The Listening Post Audio CD and Blackline Masters provides further support for lesson planning and preparation, and helps students develop their speaking and listening skills with:

  • 12 audio texts related to each phase or class
  • comprehension and activity blackline masters linked to each text.

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