Training courses

Reading Discovery Club

Reading Discovery Club is a 30 minute daily small group early literacy programme. It aims to give a boost to children needing extra support with their basic literacy skills and help them get underway with reading and writing.

Our Reading Discovery Club training provides explicit training in how to effectively deliver the programme in school. It is suitable for class teachers and teacher aides who want to teach structured literacy lessons that include reading and writing, and also Reading Recovery teachers who are running Early Literacy Support in their schools.

The Reading Discovery Club course covers:

• how to teach the Reading Discovery Club programme
• implementing the programme

To watch Reading Discovery Club lesson videos and for more information about the programme, click here.

Price includes GST.

Course: $75 pp

Who might attend the Reading Discovery Club training?

– experienced teachers and teacher aides
– Reading Recovery teachers who run Early Literacy Support

Please note that Reading Discovery Club relies on:

– the students in the group being at similar literacy levels
– the person delivering Reading Discovery Club has prior experience in teaching literacy to early readers and writers

We are proud to say all of our courses are:

• full of practical tips and activities you can use immediately
• thought provoking, engaging and often entertaining
• relevant to the modern classroom
• delivered by Yolanda Soryl
• professional, efficient and focused
• highly praised by fellow teachers

Available courses

We offer 2 ways to undertake this course

1) On Demand training (1 hours 56 minutes) $75

2) In-service training (2 hours) – visit our in-service training page

Special group discounts!

Bring a group and save!

Book 6 teachers, pay for 5! (Save $75)
Book 12 teachers, pay for 10! (Save $150)

N.B. All discounts must be claimed at the time of booking.

Reading Discovery Club Manual

You can either download for free OR buy a professionally printed manual for $25.

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Any questions?

Please see our ABOUT and FAQ pages for more information but if your question is not answered there, please contact us.

Training courses

Reading Discovery Club

Course: $75 pp

Available courses

Special group discounts!

Bring a group and save!

Reading Discovery Club Manual

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Teacher feedback

"Every teacher should do your course! Very rarely you go to a course and are interested and awake for a whole 2 hours, then come away inspired, armed and ready to put it all into practice."

"Brilliant: the best PD I've been on. I liked the speed of the training. It was fast, valuable: fantastic!"

"One of the few courses that provides you with everything you need to go off and teach right away: lesson plans, assessments, all the info from planning to teaching and assessing."

"It’s great to have a programme that is tried and true, based on sound research and developed for New Zealand schools. I can implement this in my classroom tomorrow without having to buy expensive resources."

"Thank you for your excellent course at Halswell. I've received lots of feedback from other staff about how much they got out of it and how well you presented it. It was great. Thanks again."

"As a New Entrant teacher I absolutely loved the day as it was completely relevant to me and the needs of the students in my class."

"The best course I have ever done. Having a degree in linguistics I can resolutely say that this has helped me more in my teaching of phonics than a BA and B Ed combined! Thank you."

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