Sound Waves Word Study (3–6)
Resources for Year 3 to Year 6
Sound Waves Word Study offers an effective and engaging suite of resources to equip your students for ongoing literacy success.
How to set up your Sound Waves Word Study classroom
1. Teaching Resources
Use the online teaching resources to deliver your spelling and reading lessons.
2. Student Activities
Choose either physical workbooks or printable pages for your students.
3. Teaching and Student Charts
Enhance students’ learning experience with essential reference tools.
Every classroom needs the online teaching resources
Sound Waves Online Teaching Resources
$89 per class
Includes complimentary access to the student site.
An all-inclusive Sound Waves package of online teaching resources covering Early Literacy (F–2) and Word Study (3–6).
Includes:
- phoneme and grapheme tips in each unit
- detailed lesson guides
- engaging and practical slideshows for the explicit teaching of concepts
- projectable student book pages and answers
- projectable Decodable Readers for modelled reading (F–1)
- assessments and remediation resources
- interactive tools
- hundreds of printable resources
- pronunciation videos
- online and offline spelling games
- curriculum matches and planning documents
- complimentary access to the student site.
Features differ across year levels to reflect the learning needs of students.
For each class purchased, access includes content for all year levels. With a school licence there is no extra cost for curriculum leaders or support staff attached to each class.
Purchasing
School licence access for use in 2027 will be available to purchase from October. However, you can access a free trial now.
Contact us if you need to purchase access for the remainder of this year 2026.
Individual Licences for Sound Waves Online Teaching Resources are also available for $89 per class. This option provides one teacher and their class access to the resources.
Sound Waves Online Teaching Resources is an online package consisting of multiple products: Sound Waves Early Literacy Online F–2 and Sound Waves Word Study Online 3–6 ($79), and Sound Waves Reading Online F–1 ($10).
Choose your preferred format for student activities
Student Books 3–6
$19.95
Student book activities allow students to immediately apply the concepts taught in each lesson.
Activities include:
- segmenting words into phonemes and identifying graphemes
- reading and spelling words
- vocabulary building exercises
- working with essential morphology and etymology concepts
- challenges.
Each book contains an introductory unit which establishes the core concepts needed to begin working with the program, along with 35 units covering the 43 phonemes of Australian English and their most common graphemes.
The back of the books include space for students to segment every Focus Word, as well as a list of Extension Words for every unit.
View sample pages
* Sample pages coming soon
Purchasing
The new edition Student Books for Years 3 to 6 will be available later this year for use in 2027.
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.
Printable Student Book Pages
$17 per student*
With the same great activities as the physical student book, this option provides ultimate flexibility with printable student activities for every year level.
* This product is only available as an add-on to Sound Waves Online Teaching Resources and includes all year levels Foundation to Year 6. This product is only available under a school licence.
Purchasing
School licence access for use in 2027 will be available to purchase from October. Contact us if you need to purchase access for the remainder of this year 2026.
Add charts to enhance the experience
Teaching Charts
$69.95
Available in Standard or Extended versions
Teaching Charts feature common graphemes used to represent the 43 phonemes of Australian English.
Teaching Charts are a must-have in every classroom. They are ideal for whole-class instruction and activities, from introducing phonemes and graphemes, to playing games.
- Standard Teaching Charts are packaged as two C1-sized charts and include common graphemes with word examples.
- Extended Teaching Charts are packaged as two C1-sized charts and feature more unusual graphemes with word examples that students will encounter in upper primary.
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.
Student Chart
$6.95
Available in Standard or Extended versions
Student Charts feature common graphemes used to represent the 43 phonemes of Australian English.
The Student Chart is an essential individual reference that students can use to help them to make correct spelling choices in their everyday writing.
- The Standard Student Chart is an A3 folded chart and includes common graphemes with word examples.
- The Extended Student Chart is an A3 folded chart and features more unusual graphemes with word examples that students will encounter in upper primary.
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.
Use extra resources throughout the week
Standard Sound Box Playing Cards
$19.95
The Standard Sound Box Playing Cards are designed to help Year 3–6 students consolidate their understanding of phoneme–grapheme relationships.
The pack includes games instructions and two sets of cards featuring Sound Boxes for the 43 phonemes of Australian English, along with special cards.
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.
Standard Sound Box Cards A5
$29.95
The Standard Sound Box Cards are ideal for whole-class and small-group games and activities in Years 3–6.
The pack includes a card for each of the 24 consonant and 19 vowel Sound Boxes. The reverse side of each card features the Sound Box, Chant and Action, and articulation information.
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.
Sound Waves Decodable eReaders F–1
$7 per student*
Includes 266 different books
Suitable for Year 3–6 students who require ongoing support with reading and decoding. An eReaders subscription provides a student with access to the entire Sound Waves Decodable eReader Library. This includes all includes all Support, Core and Extended books from Foundation and Year 1.
* This product is only available as an add-on to Sound Waves Online Teaching Resources. This product is only available under a school licence.
Purchasing
School licence access for use in 2027 will be available to purchase from October. Contact us if you need to purchase access for the remainder of this year 2026.
What about Foundation to Year 2?
Check out our companion series Sound Waves Early Literacy, which teaches essential spelling and reading skills from Foundation to Year 2, and includes Decodable Readers.
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