Sound Waves Reading
Support, core or extended – your whole class is covered!
Sound Waves Decodable Readers are available in three levels of difficulty so you can provide a positive and successful reading experience for each student.
Foundation and Year 1 available now.
How to set up your classroom
Support Set
Ideal for students who need to start with a shorter, simpler text.
Core Set
Ideal for the majority of students in a typical classroom.
Extended Set
Ideal for students who can attempt more difficult words.
Products
Decodable Readers Foundation – Core Set
$318
Includes 40 different books
The core set of Foundation Decodable Readers follows a systematic synthetic phonics sequence and consolidates the explicit teaching of phoneme–grapheme relationships in corresponding Sound Waves lessons.
Each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, charming illustrations and a captivating story.
Books in the core set include:
- CVC words
- newly learned Special Words from the Sound Waves teaching sequence
- a steadily increasing word count of 25–130 words.
In addition, every Decodable Reader includes a Warm Up section with words containing the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, Book Chat questions to encourage students to reflect on what they are reading, and tips for helping students during reading.
View core sample books:
If you do not wish to pay via credit card and would like us to raise an invoice for your school, simply email us your order.
Decodable Readers Foundation – Support Set
$374
Includes 47 different books
The support set of Foundation Decodable Readers follows a systematic synthetic phonics sequence and consolidates the explicit teaching of phoneme–grapheme relationships in corresponding Sound Waves lessons.
Each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, charming illustrations and a captivating story.
Books in the support set include:
- CVC words
- previously learned Special Words from the Sound Waves teaching sequence
- a constrained word count of 20–75 words.
In addition, every Decodable Reader includes a Warm Up section with words containing the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, Book Chat questions to encourage students to reflect on what they are reading, and tips for helping students during reading.
View support sample books:
If you do not wish to pay via credit card and would like us to raise an invoice for your school, simply email us your order.
Decodable Readers Foundation – Extended Set
$318
Includes 40 different books
The extended set of Foundation Decodable Readers follows a systematic synthetic phonics sequence and consolidates the explicit teaching of phoneme–grapheme relationships in corresponding Sound Waves lessons.
Each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, charming illustrations and a captivating story.
Books in the extended set include:
- CCVC and CVCC words
- newly learned Special Words from the Sound Waves teaching sequence
- a steadily increasing word count of 40–150 words.
In addition, every Decodable Reader includes a Warm Up section with words containing the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, Book Chat questions to encourage students to reflect on what they are reading, and tips for helping students during reading.
View extended sample books:
If you do not wish to pay via credit card and would like us to raise an invoice for your school, simply email us your order.
Decodable Readers Year 1 – Core Set
$342
Includes 43 different books
The core set of Year 1 Decodable Readers follows a systematic synthetic phonics sequence and consolidates the explicit teaching of phoneme–grapheme relationships in corresponding Sound Waves lessons.
Each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, charming illustrations and a captivating story.
Books in the core set include:
- CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC words
- two-syllable words
- words with the suffixes s, ed, ing, er, ly and y
- newly learned Special Words from the Sound Waves teaching sequence
- a steadily increasing word count of 110–250 words.
In addition, every Decodable Reader includes a Warm Up section with words containing the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, Book Chat questions to encourage students to reflect on what they are reading, and tips for helping students during reading.
View core sample books:
If you do not wish to pay via credit card and would like us to raise an invoice for your school, simply email us your order.
Decodable Readers Year 1 – Support Set
$420
Includes 53 different books
The support set of Year 1 Decodable Readers follows a systematic synthetic phonics sequence and consolidates the explicit teaching of phoneme–grapheme relationships in corresponding Sound Waves lessons.
Each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, charming illustrations and a captivating story.
Books in the support set include:
- a focus on CVC words
- two-syllable words
- words with the suffixes s, ed and ing
- newly learned Special Words from the Sound Waves teaching sequence
- a constrained word count of 50–100 words.
In addition, every Decodable Reader includes a Warm Up section with words containing the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, Book Chat questions to encourage students to reflect on what they are reading, and tips for helping students during reading.
View support sample books:
If you do not wish to pay via credit card and would like us to raise an invoice for your school, simply email us your order.
Decodable Readers Year 1 – Extended Set
$342
Includes 43 different books
The extended set of Year 1 Decodable Readers follows a systematic synthetic phonics sequence and consolidates the explicit teaching of phoneme–grapheme relationships in corresponding Sound Waves lessons.
Each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, charming illustrations and a captivating story.
Books in the extended set include:
- CCCVC and CVCCC words
- two-syllable words
- words with the suffixes s, ed, ing, er, ly and y
- newly learned Special Words from the Sound Waves teaching sequence
- a steadily increasing word count of 130–290 words.
In addition, every Decodable Reader includes a Warm Up section with words containing the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship, Book Chat questions to encourage students to reflect on what they are reading, and tips for helping students during reading.
View extended sample books:
If you do not wish to pay via credit card and would like us to raise an invoice for your school, simply email us your order.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the support set cost more than the core and extended sets?
The core and extended sets each include fewer books than the support sets. The extra books are for the Sound Waves Spelling units where more than one grapheme is taught for the focus phoneme. For example, ai, ay and a_e for the phoneme /ai/ as in snail.
Typically in support, one focus grapheme is featured per book to reduce the cognitive load for students; however, in core and extended the corresponding books include multiple graphemes for the focus phoneme. To see the instances where focus graphemes are split across several books in support, read the Scope and Sequence.
Why do you only sell the books in single sets and not class sets?
Unlike other Decodable Readers, ours come in three levels of difficulty. As every classroom is different, we didn’t want to prescribe a set amount of support, core and extended sets for a class. Instead you can build the combination of sets to suit your class. For example, if you have several struggling readers, you may want to order plenty of support sets, while if you have several skilled readers, you may want to have plenty of extended sets on hand.
How do I use Sound Waves Decodable Readers with my students?
Decodable Readers form an essential role in reading instruction. There are several ways you can use them with your students. Read our How to use guide for more information.
Can I use the Sound Waves Decodable Readers if I’m not using Sound Waves Spelling?
Yes! While the recommended approach is to use the Sound Waves Decodable Readers alongside Sound Waves Spelling (because they follow the same teaching sequence), you can use the Decodable Readers with a different synthetic phonics program.
You will need to review the Sound Waves Decodable Readers Scope and Sequence to ensure each Decodable Reader is only read after students have been explicitly taught the focus phoneme–grapheme relationship and all preceding phoneme–grapheme relationships and Special Words.
For example, the Foundation Decodable Reader The Bus focuses on the grapheme b. To read this book, students need to have been taught the previous graphemes and Special Words in the sequence (graphemes: m, a, t, s, i, d, f, n, p, o, r, g, e, h, k, c and u; Special Words: I, a, is, off, has, the, my and to). Students also need to be taught the focus grapheme b prior to reading The Bus. You can do this by using the Warm Up on the inside front cover of The Bus as a teaching stimulus or by implementing teaching resources from your synthetic phonics program.
