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Start the week with story time

Sound Waves Spelling 22/11/17

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Why not introduce this week’s focus sound with one of the Sound Waves Recommended Stories?

Each story prominently features a focus sound. Better yet, this carefully curated list includes titles students will love, such as The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss.

We’ve organised the list of books by Unit to make it easy to find the right story to introduce each week’s focus sound.

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