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Fitzroy Programs
(Australia)
1. Fitzroy Readers 1-10 package (Starter set for Teacher)
2. Fitzroy Readers 1X-10X package
3.
Fitzroy Readers 11-20 package
4.
Fitzroy Readers 21-30 package
5.
Fitzroy Readers 31-40 package
6.
Fitzroy Readers 41-50 package
7.
Fitzroy Readers 51-60 package
To attend the Fitzroy
Teaching Training sessions, please refer to the home page for more details.
The
Fitzroy Method: A Brief Explanation
The Fitzroy Program of Readers and Word Skills is not
an ordinary set of story books and written activities with some phonics
hints thrown in. It is systematic phonics.
You teach letters of the alphabet and the sounds
they represent. You explain that a written word is a string of letters
showing sounds from left to right.
You teach children the skill of decoding English as
they encounter it outside the class room.
There are hundreds of thousands of English words. You cannot hope to teach
them all! That's why the Fitzroy Method teaches students how to approach
new words, by understanding sounds and digraphs.
The Fitzroy Method: How is it Done?
Begin by talking about sounds, then joining of sounds, thus making words.
Our alphabet represents sounds, both by single letters (a, b, c ...)
and by digraphs (ch, ew, tion ...). From sounds such as a, h and
t we make words such as hat.
The Fitzroy Readers systematically introduce sounds one by one with each
story. The Fitzroy Method ensures fast progress and successful remediation
because there are no surprises. Each new story uses only:
- the sounds and words learned
in previous stories,
- the new sound
that this story makes memorable, and
- a few new special
words, that is sight-words which we do not attempt to
sound out, because they do not conform to the rules (at least not to
any that we have learned so far).
The
Fitzroy Method: Why it Works.
Children like rules. They retain far more if taught
rules and exceptions rather than item-by-item.
Systematic phonics rewards children with regular victories.
It is fun to know how to decipher a whole new family of words at a time -
rather than having to endure a slow process of rote accumulation.
The Fitzroy Method is motivating because children love to go home with new
skills that work in the world outside of school, prized skills that they
can demonstrate within their own communities - such as reading signs,
notes, labels, lists, stories, instructions, dictionaries…
In
Australia, more than 3500 schools have bought the Fitzroy Readers. In Singapore, it has grant its
footing that apart from Schools, parents are using them! We recommend them to you.
More
details on The Phonic Approach and The Fitzroy Programs right after this
product listing.
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Fitzroy Readers 1-10 package (Starter set for Teacher)
comprises of the following 7 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 1-10
Suitable
for beginners who have learned most of the sounds of the alphabet.
Readers 1-10 use only basic sounds, except for Story 9, which introduces
the diagraph oo as in roof.
Readers 1-10 contains 10 books:
1. A Fat Cat
2. A Big Pig
3. Bug on a Rug
4. Dot
5. The Pet Hen
6. Fox on the Box
7. I Can Run
8. The Picnic
9. My Pup
10. John and His Fox
Fitzroy
Readers 1-10 Big books (not included in the teacher package)
Fitzroy
Word Skills 1
Workbooks
to use alongside the Readers. Book 1 support a set of 10 Readers,
devoting 7 pages of activities to each story.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 1
Answers
provided for Word Skills 1. Each answer page shows the full question page
with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet of the
Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 1-10
Containing
ten of the Reader stories 1-10. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
Fitzroy
Alphabet Book
Provides 50 worksheets for sounding and writing
the alphabet. Includes alphabetical order and two-letter words. Leads
directly into the Readers and the Word Skills.
This
book has 50 x A4 pages designed for absolute beginners. The first 5 pages
help with the forming of lines and circles. Then there is a page for each
letter - help with writing, sounding and recognising. There are many
activity pages helping with discrimination, alphabetical order, and
forming two-letter words.
The
activities in this Alphabet Book are designed for absolute beginners,
including pre-writing and letter formation. They are complete preparation
for Fitzroy Readers 1 to 10 and for the Fitzroy Word Skills Activity Book
1.
Fitzroy Sounds
Two disks are supplied:
The phonetic disk provides the phonetically
correct sound for each letter. For example, the 'f' sound is
voiceless and continuous as it sounds at the end of 'cliff'. This
one is specially recommended for ESL students.
The traditional disk provides an
alternative way of sounding 13 of the letters. This is to accommodate
teachers who use the traditional soundings such as 'fhhh!'(voiced
plosive) – as in 'fish' without the 'sh’.
This
book is especially suitable for the Singapore market as some ideas are
supplied with the help of the Singapore exclusive distributor, September
21 Enterprise Pte Ltd.
Teacher's
Guide
This
book fills a gap for many teachers who have not yet learned how to
exploit the phonic features of English.
Phonic methods are the secret to early literacy, as has been borne out by
the phenomenal success of our materials in saving the literacy of many
children across the country.
Include
sample lesson plans, spelling list and assessment tools for each
level. This book is
especially suitable for the Singapore market as some ideas are supplied
with the help of the Singapore exclusive distributor, September 21 Enterprise
Pte Ltd.
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Fitzroy Readers 1X-10X package for Teacher comprises of
the following 4 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 1x-10x
Each
story features a basic English sound (e.g. oy), a few sight words (e.g.
said), a revision word list and an extension word list.
Readers 1x-10x contains 10 books:
1x. Ann and Mal
2x. Tom Cat and Jim Rat
3x. The Mud Hut
4x. Ants at the Camp
5x. The Big Mess
6x. The Sick Dog
7x. The Land of Zond
8x. The Bus Stop
9x. The Billabong
10x. Cat and Kitten
Fitzroy
Word Skills 1X
Workbooks
to use alongside the Readers. Book 1X supports a set of 10 Readers,
devoting 7 pages of activities to each story.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 1X
Answers
provided for Word Skills 1X. Each answer page shows the full question
page with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet
of the Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 1X-10X
Containing
ten of the Reader stories 1X-10X. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
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Fitzroy Readers 11-20 package for Teacher comprises of
the following 4 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 11-20
Each
story features a basic English sound (e.g. oy), a few sight words (e.g.
said), a revision word list and an extension word list.
Readers
11-20 contains 10 books:
11. The Animals
12. My Lost Bear
13. The Frog & the Fly
14. The Girl & the Boy
15. Tall and Small
16. Buns and Eggs
17. The Fish
18. Dad and the Kids
19. Mark and Mars
20. Wombat
Fitzroy
Readers 11-20 Big books (not included in the teacher package)
Fitzroy
Word Skills 2
Workbooks
to use alongside the Readers. Book 2 supports a set of 10 Readers,
devoting 7 pages of activities to each story.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 2
Answers
provided for Word Skills 2. Each answer page shows the full question page
with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet of the
Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 2
Containing
ten of the Reader stories 11-20. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
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Fitzroy Readers 21-30 package for Teacher comprises of
the following 4 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 21-30
Each
story features a basic English sound (e.g. oy), a few sight words (e.g.
said), a revision word list and an extension word list.
Readers
21-30 contains 10 books:
21. Woodpecker
22. Rabbit Wants a Carrott
23. The Girls & the Ball
24. Cat, Dog & Vet
25. Tom and Benji
26. Eight Frogs & Snake
27. Tabitha and Thug
28. Love
29. Owl and the Clown
30. Jessica
Fitzroy
Word Skills 3
Workbooks
to use alongside the Readers. Book 3 supports a set of 10 Readers,
devoting 7 pages of activities to each story.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 3
Answers
provided for Word Skills 3. Each answer page shows the full question page
with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet of the
Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 3
Containing
ten of the Reader stories 21-30. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
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Fitzroy Readers 31-40 package for Teacher comprises of
the following 4 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 31-40
Each
story features a basic English sound (e.g. oy), a few sight words (e.g.
said), a revision word list and an extension word list.
Readers
31-40 contains 10 books:
31. Kate & the Rake
32. The Boat
33. On the Hill
34. The Cat & the Fish
35. Dolly Duck
36. Captain Hornblower
37. Flying Doctor
38. David the Duck
39. Silas the Cat
40. Shawn & the Go-Cart
Fitzroy
Word Skills 4
Workbooks
to use alongside the Readers. Book 4 supports a set of 10 Readers,
devoting 7 pages of activities to each story.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 4
Answers
provided for Word Skills 4. Each answer page shows the full question page
with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet of the
Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 4
Containing
ten of the Reader stories 31-40. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
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Fitzroy Readers 41-50 package for Teacher comprises of
the following 4 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 41-50
Each
story features a basic English sound (e.g. oy), a few sight words (e.g.
said), a revision word list and an extension word list.
Readers
41-50 contains 10 books:
41. Tim Comes to Stay
42. The Bear Next Door
43. Ling Goes to China
44. Cindy’s Trip to Perth
45. Sir John & Bear Brothers
46. Arthur & the Crayfish
47. The New Year Party
48. Inconvenient Puncture
49. The Grass is Greener
50. The Wisdom of Solomon
Fitzroy
Word Skills 5
Workbooks
to use alongside the Readers. Book 5 supports a set of 10 Readers,
devoting 7 pages of activities to each story.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 5
Answers
provided for Word Skills 5. Each answer page shows the full question page
with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet of the
Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 5
Containing
ten of the Reader stories 41-50. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
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Fitzroy Readers 51-60 package for Teacher comprises of
the following 7 items.
Fitzroy
Readers 51-60
Each
story features a basic English sound (e.g. oy), a few sight words (e.g.
said), a revision word list and an extension word list.
Readers
51-60 contains 10 books:
51. Paul’s Principle
52. The Dirt Track
53. Athlete Pete
54. Meeting the Challenge
55. Transported
56. David & Goliath
57. Excavations
58. Andrew & Diana
59. Lost & Won
60. The Facts of Life
Word Skills 6A & 6B are carefully designed so
as not to waste time on unnecessary and abstruse matters. It is practical
for today’s world. It enables students:
1.
to speak intelligently about the structure of English,
2.
to use English correctly in ways which are still
considered important in today’s world,
3.
to know the standard terms of grammar – noun, verb,
prefix, tense, preposition, etc – exactly as they are used in the world
today in publishing, journalism, philosophy, etc,
4.
to have the necessary grammatical knowledge to tackle a
language other than English,
5.
to enjoy the workings of English, to expand vocabulary and
to write more artfully.
Fitzroy
Word Skills 6A
Workbooks to use alongside the Readers. Books 6A supports
stories 51-55 with 14 pages for each story. These Word Skills
advance the student further in spelling, punctuation and basic grammar.
(They also include more advanced activities for the students who progress
faster,) Fitzroy Word Skills Number 6A has the essentials of grammar for
busy modern students. These can be used by students working on stories
51-55.
Word Skills 6A is designed in A4 size page modules, making each topic a
digestible activity for one session. Written in a large, generous, easy
format, and presented in small logical steps, this work book provided a
friendly approach for anyone trying to master English grammar.
Fitzroy
Word Skills 6B
Workbooks to use alongside the Readers. Books 6B supports
stories 56-60 with 14 pages for each story. Fitzroy Word Skills Number 6B
has the essentials of grammar for busy modern students. These can be used
by students working on stories 56-60.
Word Skills 6B is designed in A4 size page modules, making each topic a
digestible activity for one session. Written in a large, generous, easy
format, and presented in small logical steps, this work book provided a
friendly approach for anyone trying to master English grammar.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 6A
Answers
provided for Word Skills 6A. Each answer page shows the full question
page with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet
of the Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Word Skills Answer Book 6B
Answers
provided for Word Skills 6B. Each answer page shows the full question
page with the answers marked in. The level of English in each worksheet
of the Word Skills is taken from the corresponding Fitzroy Reader.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 6A
Containing
five of the Reader stories 51-55. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
Fitzroy
Readers Audio CD 6B
Containing
five of the Reader stories 56-60. Careful pronunciation to cater for ESL
students, for slow students and for story telling.
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Fitzroy Reader Stories on CD-ROM
Educational
software for IBM compatible and Macintosh computers produced in
conjunction with Greygum Software. Including the first forty Fitzroy
Reader stories and various interactive activities based upon the stories.
The activities include hangman, word squares and creative writing by
modifying the existing text. Assistance in reading is given with the
option of having a whole page read out. Alternatively, a student may
select an individual word and have it read to them in a natural human
voice.
For use in computers - MAC or IBM-compatible PCs
Makes learning to read very easy indeed.
Every page shown on screen - words and pictures.
Words spoken by the computer in clear English.
Any word repeated on demand.
Student can alter, re-write, store and reprint any story.
Games can be played with selected vocabulary
A CD for Stories 1-10 and 1x-10x, one for Stories 11-20, 21-30.
Fitzroy
Talking Readers 1-10
Fitzroy
Reader Stories 1-10 on CD-ROM.
Fitzroy
Talking Readers 1x-10x
Fitzroy
Reader Stories 1x-10x on CD-ROM.
Fitzroy
Talking Readers 11-20
Fitzroy
Reader Stories 11-20 on CD-ROM.
Fitzroy
Talking Readers 21-30
Fitzroy
Reader Stories 21-30 on CD-ROM.
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Alphabetics Game
This is a word-making game using English letters and
digraphs. There are two types of activities, one for beginners, and the
other for older children and adults (50 possible levels).
The package contains graded word lists, clear instructions for the
teaching activities and rules for the higher table games. Now with a
SHORT RULES sheet for those who want to get straight into the game.
It is ideal for helping
slow beginners. Also includes enjoyable after-dinner game for literate
adults.
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The
Origins of the Fitzroy Readers
The name of our town, Fitzroy, is known to thousands of
children - mostly in schools across Australia, but also in New Zealand,
Taiwan, Singapore and many other countries. This is because the title
Fitzroy Readers is printed across the top of every copy of seventy
children's story books created here in Fitzroy and published as a series
for learning to read. Over this decade, a
million story booklets have been printed.
Back in the early seventies, we, Faye Berryman and Philip O'Carroll, met
and started up Fitzroy Community School in North Fitzroy, an inner suburb
of Melbourne. Many of the houses here are over a century old, built in the
old English style. The school faces a leafy park, known as the Edinburgh
Gardens. Faye had been a secondary teacher who had seen the sad outcomes
for children who emerged from primary schooling with poor literacy. Philip
had been a philosophy lecturer specialising in logic and linguistics.
Between the two of us, we were determined to come up with a method of
teaching that would ensure that every child could read well.
The Fitzroy Readers have helped children in over 3000
schools in Australia, and many children in other countries. Furthermore,
since we published these, school systems across Australia have gradually
re-adopted a phonic element into their reading programmes.
And we sometimes wonder who is reading our stories. And we wonder how the
teachers, children and parents who use the Fitzroy Readers in so many
places far and wide, imagine Fitzroy, the source of their seventy stories.
The
Whole Language Approach
Giving
children books and encouraging parents to read to their children is a
lovely thing. However, as government policy, to be implemented as the
weapon against Australia's poor literacy standards, it can only fail. Not only
this, but such a government initiative will lull the general public into
the false security that something practical is being done to remedy the
problem.
It is a
big red herring. The real issue confronting us is the flawed literacy
method used in most of our schools and taught to trainee teachers in our
universities - namely the whole language approach. This approach,
which was taken up by academics and schools over thirty years ago, may have
been well intentioned, but it was/is not well founded.
The whole
language approach is based on the false premise that since children
naturally acquire speech by exposure to the spoken language of the group
they are born into, that the same will hold true for reading and
writing. The theory goes:
immerse the children in stories read aloud and they will naturally come to
read and write. The Australian education industry (including our
universities) has failed to acknowledge research findings - both local and
international, and available over the past thirty years - that the whole
language approach would fail many children, and that a systematic
phonic approach to teaching literacy, should be employed. Humans are
genetically endowed with the ability to acquire speech. But reading and
writing are learned skills - as human history has consistently shown us.
The first
thing that a teacher of English to beginners must do is see how spoken
English is transformed into its written form. English is an alphabetic
language. We use the letters of the alphabet to represent our speech
sounds. Teaching someone to read and write means explaining how the
alphabetic code of English works. This is not done in most of our schools.
Yours
faithfully,
Faye Berryman, English Co-ordinator, Fitzroy Community School.
The
Phonic Approach
"The Phonic
Approach" is one of the established methods of teaching children to
read and write English. Its main rival is "The Whole Language"
approach. The Whole Language approach presents children with words without
exploring the sounds of the component letters. The child is expected to
become familiar with the look of the word and remember the spoken word to
which it corresponds.
The Phonic
Approach, by contrast, introduces children firstly to the letters of the
alphabet and their basic sounds. Beginning with simple words, children
learn how words are formed from these component letters. English uses
combinations of letters (eg: sh, th, etc.) to make particular sounds. And
there are of course some English words whose spelling does not conform to
any phonic principles. These words must still be learned as "whole
words".
Objections
to the whole word approach include the fact that children cannot decipher
words they have never seen and are therefore at the mercy of their
schooling for their vocabulary. With the phonic approach children can learn
whole families of words at once - for example the ay words.
Having
learned the sound of ay the student can then read: bay,
day, gay, hay, lay, may, pay, ray, say, way, stay, play, pray, tray, sway,
etc.
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