Sound Waves Spelling - Foundation Teaching Charts

Part of the series Sound Waves Spelling.

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The Sound Waves Spelling Foundation Teaching Charts are one C1 wall chart and two A3 charts. They include the graphemes taught in the Foundation year for the 43 phonemes of Australian English.

These charts are ideal for whole-class use when introducing phonemes and graphemes, and when playing games.

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About the program:

Sound Waves Spelling is a systematic word study program for your whole school. Informed by research on the best practices for teaching spelling, the program incorporates four key areas of teaching: phonemic awareness, synthetic phonics, morphology and etymology.

Synthetic phonics

A powerful pedagogy for spelling and reading

Sound Waves uses synthetic phonics to explicitly and systematically teach students how sounds (phonemes) are represented by letter/s (graphemes) to form written words.

Instruction is intentionally pre-planned so that students progress from learning simple, broadly applicable phoneme–grapheme relationships to those that are more complex and unusual.

Word study

Spark your students’ interest in language

Successful spelling also relies on an understanding that words can be constructed from meaningful parts.

Sound Waves gets students excited about word study across all year levels through progressive activities that explore morphology (prefixes, suffixes and Greek and Latin roots), and language concepts like homophones and homographs.

Upper primary students delve deeper into etymology (word origins), helping them to understand and remember unusual or difficult words.

Explicit teaching

Success starts with effective instruction

Explicit teaching is an effective way to introduce phoneme–grapheme relationships, spelling strategies and language concepts to your students, which is why it forms the basis of all Sound Waves lessons.

Every lesson plan and slideshow is created to support the explicit teaching of spelling. We provide the resources so you can deliver lessons with ease.

Curriculum

Specifically written for Australian classrooms

Sound Waves is based on the phonemes of Australian English and follows a logical scope and sequence that aligns with all state and national curricula.