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Helping students make the right grapheme choices

Sound Waves Literacy

Australian English is made up of 43 phonemes (sounds) that make up our spoken language. Each phoneme can be represented by a number of different grapheme (letter/s)choices (some have more than 10 to choose from) …
How pronunciation influences segmenting

Sound Waves Literacy

Some words have more than one widely accepted pronunciation in Standard Australian English. This won’t affect communication but may affect how your students segment words during spelling lessons.
Make it fun by Going Bananas

Sound Waves Literacy

Try this fun version of the traditional spelling bee that Sound Waves Literacy students will love.
Have fun with printable activities and game BLMs

Sound Waves Literacy

Get students playing with words using the range of printable activity and game BLMs available in the Sound Waves Teaching Resources. 
Animated Chants and Actions

Sound Waves Literacy

Use this animated video to help your students learn the Sound Waves Chants and Actions. Encourage your students to sing along!
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…
Segmenting practice (for teachers)

Sound Waves Literacy

Segmenting is a key component of teaching spelling and it’s a skill you work on with your students time and again. But have you ever practised segmenting with your colleagues?
The Great Australian Schwa video activities for upper years

Sound Waves Literacy

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…