Your readers are wonderfully diverse
We know you work hard to meet all of their needs.
We can help. CSI Literacy is a family of resources that will help you boost your students’ literacy achievement. Using CSI Literacy, your students will learn reading strategies they can use for the rest of their lives.
You’ll transform your students’ reading. Fast.
Reading resources that work!
We’ve done the research and hard yards, and we’ve found that success in literacy comes down to three things:
1. Engaging content
2. Explicit teaching
3. Collaborative learning
What teachers say
The key to getting students into learning is engagement. If you have that, you’re winning. CSI Literacy has that.– Justin
Using CSI Literacy, my students have made a staggering leap in their reading ability.– Kyran
CSI Literacy has helped me create an environment where everyone's contribution is valid.– Nicky
We’ve seen a real growth in comprehension using CSI Literacy.– Matt
CSI Literacy resources are...
Engaging
Effective
Easy
We’ve made our resources as engaging, effective, and easy to use as possible to ensure the greatest chance of success with your students.
Our resources
Awards
2012
CLNZ
Educational Publishing Award
CLNZ
Educational Publishing Award
2013
CLNZ
Best Resource for Export
CLNZ
Best Resource for Export
2017
EdTech Digest
Cool Tool Award Finalist
EdTech Digest
Cool Tool Award Finalist
Blog posts
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Visualising
November 07, 2018
Visualising is the reading strategy that helps your students create a picture in their head of what they’re reading, almost as if your students are making videos or movies in their heads, all built from their background knowledge, their imagination, and the content of the text. Here are some tips for teaching students to visualise.
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Determining the important idea
October 29, 2018
Ask a reader what they have learned from a text and you’re going to get one of two answers. Students will have either grasped the main idea or skipped right past it. If it’s the latter, it’s likely that these learners need help with a very important reading strategy: determining the important idea. Here are some tips.