Sound Waves Literacy
Resources from Foundation to Year 6
Sound Waves Literacy provides a comprehensive suite of resources to set your students up for reading, writing and spelling success.
How to set up your Sound Waves Literacy 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 handy reference tools.
4. Decodable Readers
Provide early years students with targeted reading practice.
Every classroom needs the online teaching resources
Sound Waves Literacy Online Teaching Resources F–6
$89 per class
Includes complimentary access to the student site.
This comprehensive online package includes the synthetic phonics, word study and reading resources needed to deliver explicit, systematic and engaging lessons.
For each class purchased, access includes content for all year levels from Foundation to Year 6. With a school licence there is no extra cost for curriculum leaders or support staff attached to each class.
Includes:
- comprehensive lesson guides
- engaging slideshows for the explicit teaching of phonics, word study and reading
- projectable student book pages and answers
- projectable Decodable Readers for modelled reading (F–1) new
- reading assessment (F) new
- spelling diagnostic test and remediation resources
- content reviews
- interactive tools
- hundreds of downloadable BLMs
- 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.
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Individual Licences for Sound Waves Literacy Online Teaching Resources are also available for $89 per class. This option provides one teacher and their class access to the resources.
Sound Waves Literacy Online Teaching Resources is an online package consisting of two great products: Sound Waves Online F–6 ($79) and Sound Waves Reading Online F–1 ($10).
Choose your preferred format for student activities
Student Books F–6
$17.95
Student book activities consolidate the explicit teaching of phonemes, graphemes and Focus Concepts. Activities include*:
- identifying focus phonemes in words
- segmenting words into phonemes
- reading and spelling words
- working with vocabulary, morphology and etymology concepts.
Each book contains an introductory unit which establishes the basic concepts needed to begin working with the program, along with 35 sound units covering the 43 phonemes of Australian English and their most common graphemes.
In the back of each book are Helpful Hints to aid students in making correct spelling choices, as well as a list of Extension Words for every unit. Years 3–6 also include challenges.
* Features differ across year levels to reflect the learning needs of students. Books 3–6 include extra pages for students to practise segmenting Focus Words.
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Printable Student Book Pages F–6
$13 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 (Foundation to Year 6).
* This product is only available as an add-on to Sound Waves Literacy Online Teaching Resources. This product is only available under a school licence.
Add charts to enhance the experience
Teaching Charts
$69.95
Available in Foundation, Standard or Extended versions
Teaching Charts feature common graphemes used to represent the 43 phonemes of Australian English.
Teaching Charts are ideal for whole-class instruction and activities, from introducing phonemes and graphemes, to playing games.
- Foundation Teaching Charts are packaged as one C1-sized chart plus two A3-sized charts and include the graphemes taught in the Foundation program.
- 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.
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Student Chart
$6.95
Available in Foundation, Standard or Extended versions
Student Charts feature common graphemes used to represent the 43 phonemes of Australian English.
The Student Chart is a handy individual reference that students can use to help them to make correct spelling choices in their everyday writing.
- The Foundation Student Chart is an A4 folded chart and includes the graphemes taught in the Foundation program.
- 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.
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Follow on with targeted reading practice
Decodable Readers Foundation Support Set
$374
47 different books included
An ideal starting point for students who need to build confidence in their reading.
Aligning with Sound Waves Literacy lessons, each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship.
Books in the support set include:
- a focus on CVC words
- a constrained word count of 20–75 words.
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Decodable Readers Foundation Core Set
$318
40 different books included
An ideal level of difficulty for the majority of students.
Aligning with Sound Waves Literacy lessons, each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship.
Books in the core set include:
- a focus on CVC words
- a steadily increasing word count of 25–130 words.
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Decodable Readers Foundation Extended Set
$318
Includes 40 different books
Suitable for students who are more confident with reading.
Aligning with Sound Waves Literacy lessons, each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship.
Books in the extended set include:
- a focus on CCVC and CVCC words
- words with the suffix s
- a steadily increasing word count of 40–150 words.
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Decodable Readers Year 1 Support Set
$420
Includes 53 different books
An ideal starting point for students who need to build confidence in their reading.
Aligning with Sound Waves Literacy lessons, each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship.
Books in the support set include:
- a focus on CVC words
- two-syllable words
- words with the suffices s, ed, and ing
- a constrained word count of 50–100 words
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Decodable Readers Year 1 Core Set
$342
Includes 43 different books
An ideal level of difficulty for the majority of students.
Aligning with Sound Waves Literacy lessons, each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship.
Books in the core set include:
- a focus on CCVC, CVCC and CCVCC words
- two-syllable words
- words with the suffices s, ed, ing, er, ly and y
- a steadily increasing word count of 110–250 words
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Decodable Readers Year 1 Extended Set
$342
Includes 43 different books
Suitable for students who are more confident with reading
Aligning with Sound Waves Literacy lessons, each book in the set features a focus phoneme–grapheme relationship.
Books in the support set include:
- CCCVC and CVCCC words
- two-syllable words
- words with the suffices s, ed, ing, er, ly and y
- a steadily increasing word count of 130–290 words
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Use extra resources throughout the week
Foundation Sound Icon Playing Cards
$19.95
The Foundation Sound Icon Playing Cards are designed to help consolidate students’ phonemic awareness skills.
The pack includes games instructions and two sets of cards featuring Sound Icons for the 43 phonemes of Australian English, along with special cards.
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Foundation Sound Icon Cards A5
$29.95
Designed to be used in Phase 1 for oral activities, the Foundation Sound Icon Cards feature Sound Icons for the 43 phonemes of Australian English.
The pack includes a card for each of the 24 consonant and 19 vowel Sound Icons. The reverse side of each card features the Sound Icon, Chant and Action, and articulation information.
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Foundation Sound Box Cards A5
$29.95
Designed to be used in Phase 2 for oral and written activities, the Foundation Sound Box Cards feature Sound Boxes for the 43 phonemes of Australian English.
The pack includes 63 cards featuring the graphemes taught in the Foundation year. The reverse side of each card features the Sound Box, Chant and Action, and articulation information.
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Standard Sound Box Playing Cards
$19.95
The Standard Sound Box Playing Cards are designed to help Year 1–6 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.
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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 1–6.
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.
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Words and Sounds Book A5
$7.95
The Words and Sounds Book is designed to help early years students learn alphabetical order and phoneme–grapheme relationships.
The book is divided into two sections: Word Lists (frequently used words arranged in alphabetical order) and Phonemes & Graphemes (to record and reference phoneme–grapheme relationships). Both sections include space for students to add new words so they can create a personalised word bank and spelling reference tool.
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Free professional learning and support
Workshops, articles, videos and more
We understand that ongoing professional learning leads to consistent and successful implementation of instruction. Our team has a wealth of teaching experience and provides a range of tailored professional learning opportunities to continually support you and your school in using the Sound Waves Literacy resources.
Request a workshop for your school, register for one of our virtual workshops, browse our professional learning articles, or simply reach out to your local education consultant anytime of the year with your questions.
