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Extension Word activities for your spelling stars

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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

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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?

Sound Waves Literacy

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?