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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…
What's in a name?

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Plenty if you are a Sound Waves teacher! Names are a great source for studying phonemes and graphemes. Students love to discover unusual graphemes in their names. 
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?
Get your whole school on board with Sound Waves Literacy

Sound Waves Literacy

A comprehensive, whole-school approach to literacy ensures consistency across all year levels, promoting a unified learning environment for students and staff.
Start the week with story time

Sound Waves Literacy

Why not introduce this week’s focus sound with one of the Sound Waves Recommended Stories?
Which approach works best: Systematic synthetic phonics or embedded phonics?

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When it comes to spelling, a large body of evidence identifies phonics as a vital component of instruction in the primary years. Most educators are aware of this consensus, but debate continues to linger regarding the effectiveness of two specific…
Can one grapheme represent more than one sound?

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Yes! One grapheme (letter) can represent more than one sound – here are some examples:
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…