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How to prepare your classroom for Decodable Readers

Sound Waves Literacy

If you’ve recently made the switch from levelled texts to Decodable Readers, you may be wondering how you can organise these books. Here are our tips for setting up your classroom for reading success!
What's so special about Sound Waves Special Words?

Sound Waves Literacy

Special Words are high-frequency words containing unusual phoneme–grapheme relationships (e.g. was, said), or words containing phoneme–grapheme relationships not yet taught in the sequence (e.g. look, for).
Enhancing your students' critical thinking skills

Maths Trek

Critical thinking helps students transform their understanding of everyday maths concepts into something meaningful and useful. But how can we incorporate critical thinking into our maths classrooms? And how can we improve our students’ critical thinking skills?
Fluency and flexibility in mental computation

Think Mentals

Have you ever tried moving furniture? Did you panic when your oversized couch wouldn’t fit through the door? Did you hastily try different positions until you found one that worked – damaging the paintwork in the process? Or did you…
Enrichment tasks in English Stars

English Stars

Enrichment tasks are activities designed to strengthen students’ educational experience and extend them academically. Using real-world contexts, these tasks are designed to engage students and challenge them to apply their learning in unfamiliar ways.
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.
What is orthographic mapping and why is it important?

Sound Waves Literacy

Have you ever wondered how expert readers can automatically and effortlessly recognise words?
Extend and support students with Sound Waves Decodable Readers

Sound Waves Literacy

Every classroom has a wide range of students who experience success at different paces. Some students seem to easily fly ahead while others require additional practice to master skills. This is a challenge when teaching early reading and spelling, and…
How do we learn to read?

Sound Waves Literacy

Is learning to read simple? The Simple View of Reading* outlines the abilities readers need to understand and construct meaning from a text as: