Connecting

Structured Literacy Support groups for teachers and parents are popping up spontaneously all over the country. Find your nearest group below. Please get in touch if you want to add a group missing from our list.

There are also quite a few really good overseas based groups. We list a few here as well.

Nationwide

NZ Teachers - Structured Literacy and Using Decodable Texts (started 29 May 2020)

Structured Literacy tier 2 and 3 interventions in New Zealand (started 16 October 2020)

Structured Literacy for Older Learners in NZ (started 9 September 2021)

Structured Literacy in Māori Immersion (started 25 November 2021)

Mahi by Mahi (for support for Te Reo immersion teachers)

Grammar for Structured Literacy (started 15 September 2021)

The Kiwi Reading Doctor - aimed at teachers of older students (started 15 December 2021)

Dyslexia NZ Evidence Based Support Group (Deb) (started 28 September 2019, archived 22 September 2023)

Dyslexia Evidence Based (deb) website

Dyslexia Support Group for parents (started September 2023)

TEPiL (Teaching to Ensure Progress in Literacy) (started 30 August 2019)

Literacy at Massey (started 27 August 2021)

North Island

Structured Literacy Whangarei (started 5 August 2020)

Structured Literacy - Auckland (started 4 March 2020)

SL North Shore (started 7 October 2023)

The Science of Reading Out West (started 31 January 2023)

Structured Literacy - Waikato (started 4 April 2021)

Structured Literacy Taranaki Group (started 22 December 2020)

South Rangitikei Structured Literacy (started 4 May 2021)

Manawatu Structured Literacy Group (started 15 March 2018)

Evidence Based Literacy for Educators - Hutt Valley/Wellington (started 7 September 2020)

South Island

Structured Literacy - Top of the South (started 12 March 2020)

Structured Literacy in Southland (started 17 January 2020)

International

Reading Science in Schools (based out of Perth, Australia with 32,000 members)

Science of Reading - What I Should have learned in College (US based, 84,000 members)