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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…
Grattan Institute: 'Australia has a reading problem'

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In February 2024 the Grattan Institute published a report entitled The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance of success and it opened with a confronting fact: ’Australia has a reading problem. A third of our children can’t…
Discover the varied and engaging text types in Sound Waves Decodable Readers

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There are many things that make our Sound Waves Decodable Readers stand out from the crowd, but one of our favourite features is the array of text types within the series.
Sound Waves Literacy: Key Information

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We’ve collated answers to some of our most frequently asked questions. Does Sound Waves Literacy align with the Science of Reading (SoR) research? Does the program follow a Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) approach? _How are reading and spelling taught alongside…
What's so special about Sound Waves Special Words?

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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).