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Differentiation with Sound Waves Literacy

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The aim of differentiation is to improve the knowledge and skills of every student regardless of their starting point.
What makes Sound Waves Literacy an effective program?

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Sound Waves Literacy is a whole-school systematic word study program that supports teachers in their whole-class (Tier 1) spelling and reading lessons.
Superchart your spelling lessons

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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.
How are phoneme–grapheme relationships introduced in the Foundation year?

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In the Foundation year of Sound Waves Literacy, phoneme-grapheme relationships are introduced in a very specific order. This minimises confusion for students and ensures they are up and running quickly with reading and spelling.
The Great Australian Schwa video activities for upper years

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The schwa is the most common vowel sound in English. You and your students will be working with the schwa in most spelling lessons (even though it’s not formally taught until Unit 36). We’ve created a fun video ’The Great Australian Schwa’ to…
Introduce the focus sound as a school

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Sound Waves Literacy has been carefully structured so that for any given week the focus sound is the same across Years 1 to 6. This consistency makes it easy to introduce the focus as a whole school.
Tricks of the trade: Tackling words that are difficult to segment

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Segmenting words into phonemes (sounds) and graphemes is an essential skill for spelling success. Some words are fairly straightforward to segment, such as shop (/sh/o/p/) or chain (/ch/ai/n/), but what about fox or argue?
Start the week with story time

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Why not introduce this week’s focus sound with one of the Sound Waves Recommended Stories?
Learning is child's play! Four fun phonics games no student can resist

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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.