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Why use Sound Waves National?

Internationally successful approach

Sound Waves is based on the phonemic approach, which has been identified world-wide as the most successful approach to the teaching of reading and spelling skills.

Australian English, for the Australian Curriculum

Sound Waves National is being written especially for Australian students, by Australian teachers. Sound Waves National is based on Australian English, for the Australian Curriculum.

A whole-school program from K to 6

The Australian Curriculum emphasizes the importance of teaching phonics and promotes the teaching of spelling through to Year 6. Sound Waves National is a consistent and systematic whole-school program that allows development of spelling and reading skills from K to 6.

A well-resourced program

Sound Waves makes using a phonemic approach easy. The series includes Student Books (core of your program), Teacher Resource Books (implementation strategies) and additional support material (charts, BLMs and CD).

More than just spelling

Sound Waves activities also teach other important concepts, such as rhyming,tense, prefixes, suffixes, Greek and Latin roots and many more!

More about the phonemic approach:

The phonemic approach to teaching reading and spelling skills is endorsed by world renowned pedagogical academics. Inspiring logical and lateral higher-order thinking, Sound Waves provides the scaffolding students thrive on, leading to a genuine understanding of the mechanics of our language.

Sound Waves students learn phonemic strategies to decode and encode the written word - the alphabetic code becomes clear when children can manipulate phonemes. Acquiring the ability to segment words into phonemes allows students to explore written language confidently. Students readily experience success in reading, writing and spelling when they are able to identify the links between spoken and written language.

Developed by experienced classroom teachers Barbara Murray and Terri Watson, the Sound Waves series offers a comprehensive package for teaching phonemically. Using the Student Books in combination with the Teacher Resource Book, Super Spelling Challenges and Teaching Charts gives teachers a fantastic range of resources to put together a fun, exciting, stimulating and challenging spelling program.