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Sound Waves Literacy Online: Handy tips and features

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There’s so much to discover at Sound Waves Literacy Online. Aside from oodles of quality lesson materials, the intuitive digital design is packed with handy tools and features that make teaching in a modern classroom seamless.
High-frequency words, special words, sight words – what's the difference?

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High-frequency words, as the name suggests, are the words most often used in English and can contain common or unusual phoneme–grapheme relationships.
How to deliver effective modelled reading with projectable Sound Waves Decodable Readers

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Before students begin reading independently, it’s important they are explicitly taught phoneme–grapheme relationships and have the opportunity to observe effective modelled reading.
Sound Waves early years just got even better: Explore the latest updates

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After announcing a range of new and improved features earlier this year, we’ve added even more enhancements to ensure your Sound Waves early years lessons are engaging and pedagogically robust.
Western Australia embraces systematic synthetic phonics with new mandates

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Western Australian schools are now mandated to follow the updated phonics and word knowledge sub-strand of the new Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 – with the rest of the English curriculum to follow in 2025.
Victorian schools adopt explicit instruction of systematic synthetic phonics – Sound Waves Literacy is here to help!

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Victoria has joined the wave that’s rolling across Australian education as the Education Minister, Ben Carroll, mandates for all Victorian public schools to implement the explicit instruction of systematic synthetic phonics from 2025.
How to ensure your early years reading instruction is effective

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The teaching of reading has always been a hot topic. With recent updates to the curriculum, the release of the Queensland Reading Commitment and the new Grattan Institute report outlining the large number of Australian students not mastering the necessary…
Sound Waves Literacy and the Reading Commitment

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For educators all over Australia, improving students’ reading outcomes is a shared goal. So whether you’re based in Queensland or elsewhere, the Queensland Reading Commitment is an essential read for its invaluable, evidence-informed insights and recommendations about how schools can…
Discover the new features in Sound Waves early years

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Calling all early years teachers! You’re going to love the new features we’ve recently added to the online teaching resources for Sound Waves Literacy, from projectable Decodable Readers to reading assessments and more. These new online features work seamlessly alongside…