Game on! Six engaging Sound Waves Playing Card games

Sound Waves Spelling Sound Waves Reading

Have you heard about our Sound Waves Playing Cards? Perfect for any Sound Waves classroom, these special cards are designed to help students consolidate their understanding of phoneme–grapheme relationships through engaging whole-class and small group games!

Three fun handwriting warm-up ideas

Writing Time

Given how commonplace handwriting is in our everyday lives, it’s easy to forget how important a warm-up activity can be for young students who are just learning.

Reinforce your students' spelling skills with the Sound Waves Chants and Actions videos

Sound Waves Spelling

Created to help students learn the 43 sounds (phonemes) that make up Australian English, the Chants and Actions videos are engaging classroom favourites that you’ll use time and time again.

8 warm-up maths challenges to use in the classroom

Looking for an opportunity to practise problem-solving strategies with your students? Use some of these fun warm-up challenges in your classroom and see how your students fare!

Play the Grid Game!

Practise and consolidate factors of numbers and multiplication facts with this array-based Grid Game.

Use these art activities for fine motor skills practice

Writing Time

Looking for a fun way for students to develop and refine their fine motor skills? Use the beautifully illustrated art activity pages from Writing Time!

BLM Spotlight

Sound Waves Spelling

Get students playing with words using the printable activities available at Sound Waves Online. There are plenty of activities to choose from, but we’ve hand-picked a few of our favourites to show you how easily they can be set up and enjoyed…

Handwriting tips for your left-handed students

Writing Time

Much of the world has been designed for right-handed people – including handwriting. Luckily, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to help make the process of learning to write a little easier for your left-handed students.…

Unpacking problem solving and reasoning

Problem solving and reasoning are important proficiencies in the Australian Curriculum for mathematics. Let’s confirm our understanding of what problem solving and reasoning entail, unpack how the two skills are related and explore ways to help students master them.