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Ranger Read

Ranger Read is a phonics-based reading program that engages all senses, enhancing memory retention and experiential learning.

For children under two, the experience includes meeting vowel puppets, playing hide and seek, matching games, and sensory activities like smelling and tasting food.

Children over two engage in storytelling, movement, and hands-on word-building exercises that foster a love for language.

  • Ranger Read also empowers parents, grandparents, and carers with “learning bites”.
  • By embedding phonics principles into engaging storytelling and imaginative play, Ranger Read makes learning joyful and memorable.
  • Adults are encouraged to jump into their child’s world— acting out silly sounds— creating lifelong learning through shared adventures.

STAGE 1: CONSONANTS & SHORT VOWELS

  • Toddlers will distinguish vowels from consonants, make basic sounds, and read three-letter words.
  • Ranger Read introduces the 26 letters.
    • Toddlers get a card with an animal and letter, then split into consonants (animals) and vowels (owls).

Stage 1: The unique activities

STAGE 2A: LONG VOWEL SOUNDS

  • Ranger Read teaches long vowel rules through stage-based games, making learning interactive.

STAGE 2B: SPECIAL CONSONANTS

  • Toddlers discover that the letters c, g, x and y can made different sounds.

STAGE 2C: READING RULES

  • Toddlers act as animals (consonants) and owls (letters), uniting on stage to form words.

Stage 2: The unique activities

STAGE 3: READING RULES EXCEPTIONS

Preschoolers will confidently tackle tricky reading exceptions

  • silent letters,
  • variable letter combinations,
  • consonants affecting vowel sounds, and
  • different spellings for the same sound.

Stage 3: The unique activities

STAGE 4: UNIQUE SOUNDS

  • Toddlers will explore new and unique sounds – air, sh, th, ng, ar, ow, aw, ar, oi, and er.
  • Toddlers act as animals and owls, hearing, saying and writing ‘unique’ sounds.

Stage 4: the unique activities

ABOUT US

  • Dr Janet Saunders is currently a lecturer in Illustration and Visual Storytelling at Western Sydney University. Janet has worked in collaboration with Ian Moore to produce an early English reading program, Ranger Read.Recently trialled in Kenya and Tanzania. More information about Janet.

Ian Moore, teacher and mentor, has been honoured with a prestigious Australian College of Educators Fellowship and dual honorary Fellowships from the NSW Teachers Guild.

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