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Ziptales for Teachers
Ziptales is an online literacy library, created by teachers, to advance a love of reading.
It is a complete package for all primary English needs, covering:
The large Ziptales 'library' has been built up carefully over 15 years to offer the very best content for children. Specially commissioned stories have been arranged in genre categories at different levels of readability to match all levels in the primary school.
That's a total of 550+ modules, covering all English literacy needs from nursery and beyond.
Ziptales offers a 10 stage reading scheme, aligned to Reading Recovery, Lexiles and Flesch. A reading diagnosis engine offers, in just five minutes, a way of placing a child in the correct level of reading.
It is a complete package for all primary English needs, covering:
- READING - 300+ stories, poems, puzzles and other content
- WRITING - explicit teaching of 'How to write' major genre types
- ORAL LANGUAGES - voiceovers for all stories
- EXPLICIT TEACHING of all major English topics - 150 lessons across all levels
- INSTRUCTION in Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling and Comprehension (56 lessons)
- CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT - direct mapping to the UK National Curriculum English
The large Ziptales 'library' has been built up carefully over 15 years to offer the very best content for children. Specially commissioned stories have been arranged in genre categories at different levels of readability to match all levels in the primary school.
That's a total of 550+ modules, covering all English literacy needs from nursery and beyond.
Ziptales offers a 10 stage reading scheme, aligned to Reading Recovery, Lexiles and Flesch. A reading diagnosis engine offers, in just five minutes, a way of placing a child in the correct level of reading.
Teacher Dashboard
 Getting Started |  Reading Levels |
| Get started with our short tutorial offering you a quick overview of Ziptales and the best way to get started with your class. | See the different readability measures Ziptales uses to determine the reading difficulty of the texts published in the library. |
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 Curriculum Alignment |  Theme Units |
| National Curriculum, Curriculum for Excellence, Northern Ireland Curriculum and IB aligned, showing a direct link between the curriculum and our stories, activities, and SEL mini lessons. | A set of 24 high value theme units, offering coverage of all Zip Stage levels, with detailed classroom planning notes and assessment guidelines. |
 Worksheets |  Ziptales: The Full Guide |
| A wide variety of BLMs for follow up activities after reading: general sheets, learning support, spelling and vocabulary and "Work Work" sheets - for all stories. | Our essential 50 page ebook programme manual. |
 How to use |  CPD Guide |
| A really helpful series of ultra tutorials dealing with specific parts of the Ziptales library. | A short video, offering Professional Development or 'set up' instruction, for schools and library. |
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