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Superchart your spelling lessons

Sound Waves Literacy

The Sound Waves charts are a valuable resource to use throughout the week. Discover the key features of the teaching and student charts and try our ideas for using them in your classroom.
Play 'Phoneme Chain'

Sound Waves Literacy

Phoneme Chain can be played at any time of the week. You don’t need any resources to play – just a willing class of participants!
Extension Word activities for your spelling stars

Sound Waves Literacy

Do you have students in your class who excel at spelling? You’ve no doubt discovered the Extension Words available for every Sound Waves Literacy unit, but how many different ways do you use them? Here are a few ideas to…
Let the games begin!

Sound Waves Literacy

Inject some fun into your weekly spelling lessons with some of our favourite Sound Waves games. Whether used as a warm up or a fun way to wrap up the week, students will relish the chance to apply their spelling…
Exploring all sounds: Fun ideas to kickstart your spelling lessons

Sound Waves Literacy

A sound exploration session is the perfect way to tune students’ ears and eyes to recognise phonemes (sounds) and focus on graphemes (letter/s). Before you introduce the week’s focus phoneme, conduct a quick and easy whole-class activity that explores a…
What’s the difference? Understanding phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics

Sound Waves Literacy

Updates to the Australian Curriculum are shining a spotlight on teaching phonological awareness (in particular, phonemic awareness) and phonics. So whether you’re a novice or have been teaching spelling and reading this way for many years, there’s never been a…
Learning is child's play! Four fun phonics games no student can resist

Sound Waves Literacy

Wind back the clock a few decades and you’d be lucky to find more than a handful of teachers using games as serious (and seriously fun!) teaching tools.
What is a split digraph?

Sound Waves Literacy

A split digraph is when one sound splits the a, e, i, o, or u and the final e. For example, stage has a split digraph but not change.
What is a blend?

Sound Waves Literacy

Blends, also known as consonant clusters, are sequences of two or three consonant sounds. The words snap, clip and split begin with blends. The words jump, desk and milk end in blends.