Sounds in Focus
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Engage your students with stimulating activities to develop language proficiency.
- Using graphemes for encoding and decoding the English language.
- Develop strategies for spelling.
- Explore and extend vocabulary.
Develops much more than spelling.
It builds vocabulary and ensures that words are used in context. Grammar elements are built into each unit, ensuring that teachers can work on these essential areas of writing in a holistic way.
Foster an active, thinking approach to spelling.
Students are encouraged to ‘Explore the Sound’ by brainstorming and making lists of words that contain the sound. These words can be sorted by the graphemes that are used, enabling students to appreciate that a sound can be spelled in many ways.
Phonemic awareness approach to learning to spell.
This whole-school spelling and language program was designed and developed around a phonemic awareness approach to learning to spell. This whole-school program ensures that phonemic awareness is developed progressively through each class level. Promoting a deeper understanding by replacing rote learning with strategies for reading, writing and spelling. It includes clever ideas for direct instruction and play-based learning activities.
Program designed for a whole school approach
The student books from Foundation to Year 6 feature the same Sound Unit on the same page. This makes it easy to teach the focus sound to the whole class, then direct students to work on the Sound Unit with words and concepts appropriate to their level.
