A guide to the new Sound Waves Spelling Online

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A guide to the new

Sound Waves Spelling Online

Teaching Resources

F–6

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How to use Sound Waves Spelling With resources available for Foundation to Year 6, teaching with Sound Waves Spelling is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

View the Scope and SequenceSound Waves Spelling follows a thorough and logical scope and sequence.

Instruction builds from Foundation to Year 6, starting with simple phoneme–grapheme relationships before exploring more complex relationships, morphology and etymology.

Before diving in to Sound Waves Spelling Online Teaching Resources, download the Scope and Sequence to get a snapshot of everything Sound Waves Spelling covers.

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Have students consolidate skills with the activities in the Sound Waves Spelling Student Books (also available as printable pages).

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Explicitly teach lessons using Sound Waves Spelling Online Teaching Resources.1

Support students’ spelling during lessons and in everyday writing with additional resources, including teaching charts, student charts, playing cards and more!

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About Sound Waves Spelling Online Teaching Resources Welcome to the new online teaching resources! Access includes every year level (Foundation to Year 6).

Each year contains a series of units packed with explicit lesson guides, projectable slideshows and more!

In this guide we’ll show you Year 3, Unit 8 , but you can follow along with any year level or unit. Simply log in, select a year level and choose a unit to start exploring.

How is Foundation different?The Foundation program has a two-phase structure which sets it apart from Years 1 to 6. Phase 1: Exploring Sounds is taught in Term 1 and Phase 2: Discovering Graphemes is taught in Terms 2–4. Some features within Foundation differ from other year levels.

If you teach Foundation, be sure to explore a unit from each of the two phases. You’ll find some cool features specific to Foundation, such as the Focus Sound Searches.

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Let’s look at a Unit Overview Year 3, Unit 8 After you’ve selected a unit, open the Unit Overview to access helpful tips and resources, such as videos, interactive tools and answers.

The Unit Overview includes:• phoneme and

grapheme tips• quick access to key

resources that you may use throughout the week

• answers for the Student Book activities and the segmented Focus and Extension Words.

Every unit contains a series of lessons to teach throughout the week.• In the first lesson

of every week, you introduce students to the focus phoneme, graphemes and Focus Words of the unit.

• During the rest of the week, you teach students spelling and vocabulary concepts, such as suffixes, homophones, and Greek and Latin roots. These lessons are known as Focus Concepts.

Each lesson includes a detailed lesson guide and projectable slideshow (featuring videos and interactive tools).

Every unit includes an Extra Games & Activities section with interactive games, offline game ideas and Black Line Masters.


Let’s look at a Focus Phoneme, Graphemes & Focus Words lesson Read the lesson guide, then take a peek at the lesson slideshow to watch the videos and try out the interactive tools.

Name of the lesson.


These thumbnails* show you the slides that you will display to your students to deliver the lesson. Slides have been carefully designed for full-screen projection to focus whole-class attention.

Focused teaching notes covering the sequence of instruction, discussion prompts, examples and answers are provided for each slide.

After you’re familiar with the lesson guide below, select this button to project the lesson slideshow to your class.

Name of the lesson.

*Thumbnails will be available in January 2022.



Slides include interactive tools so you can effectively and easily model essential skills, such as segmenting.

Lessons culminate with the Student Book activities where students can apply and consolidate their learning.

Focus Phoneme, Graphemes & Focus Words lesson continued …



After you’re familiar with the lesson guide below, select this button to project the lesson slideshow to your class.

Lessons culminate with the Student Book activities where students can apply and consolidate their learning.

Name of the lesson.

Let’s look at a Focus Concept lesson

These teaching notes ensure you have everything you need to teach and model specific spelling and vocabulary concepts, such as suffixes, homophones, and Greek and Latin roots.


Let’s look at a Student Book spread Once you have taught each lesson, students work with you to complete the associated Student Book activities. Student Books are available as a physical workbook or as printable pages.

Generally, the first page in every unit relates to the Focus Phoneme, Graphemes & Focus Words lesson, and the second page relates to the two or more Focus Concept lessons in that unit.

Focus Words

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1 Turn to page 81 to segment the Focus Words.

UNIT

8

4 Finish the sentences.

Half of eight is .

Thirteen plus one is .

Double twenty is .

Fifteen minus ten is .

Ten plus five is .

Half of one hundred is .

5 Write f, ff or ph for to finish the words.

o

sa e

ire

eel

cli

sni

one

ace

riday

dol in

amily

avourite

6 Write fl, fr or ft to finish the words.

y

y

le

gi

oze

ick

ame

ame

ew

om

ow

so

softsniffclifffree

flewfriendphonephoto

flippedflippinghelpfulthankful

fortyfiftyfifteenfourteen

fireFridaydolphinfamily

fish cliff phonef ff ph

2 Write Focus Words that match the clues.

smell

school mate

costs nothing

steep rock face

day of the week

opposite of hard

3 Label the pictures with Focus Words.

7 Underline the spelling mistake in each sentence. Write the words correctly.

My familee went to the beach on Friday.

There was a dolfin jumping in the waves!

I wanted to take a foto with Mum’s phone.

A bird floo in the way and I missed everything!

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Suffix ful

full of care

full of fear

full of power

full of joy

full of hope

full of thanks

10 Write the words from the box to match the meanings.

joyful

careful

hopeful

fearful

thankful

powerful

8 Rewrite the words using ed and ing.

Suffixes ed, ing

9 Rewrite the words from the brackets using ed or ing.

I myself to cool down. [ fan ]

The birds are their wings. [ flap ]

I’m going with my friend on Friday. [ fish ]

Aunty Fay the heavy crate of seeds. [ lift ]

flick flip flop

ed

ing

Challenge

Write the animal names in alphabetical order. All the names have . Use a dictionary to check your spelling.

1.

2.

3.

4.

1.

2.

3.

4.

11 Rewrite the words adding the suffix ful to match the examples.

a new puppy

using manners

a field of flowers

stubbing your toe

pain respect colour play

a happy friend

throwing out food

washing the dishes

relaxing in a quiet park

help cheer peace waste

The suffix ful means full of or having.

Hint 9

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Focus Concept activities are clearly labelled to match the corresponding lesson.

Sound Box contains the Sound Icon and the most common graphemes used to represent the focus phoneme.

Focus Words contain the focus phoneme and link to Focus Concepts. Extension Words are also provided for every Sound Unit. You can find ideas for using Extension Words at Sound Waves Spelling Online.

Focus Word activities involve identifying the focus phoneme in words, segmenting words into phonemes, and reading and spelling words.

Challenge is an engaging activity for fast finishers.

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Sound Waves Spelling is a whole-school program developed by Australian teachers for use in Australian classrooms.

Informed by research on the best practices for teaching spelling, the program incorporates four key areas of teaching:

phonemic awarenessthe ability to work with phonemes

synthetic phonicsphonics instruction that involves teaching phoneme–grapheme relationships

morphologyknowledge of the meaningful parts of words: prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots

etymologyunderstanding of word origins and history

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Sound Waves Spelling Online provides everything teachers need to deliver systematic, explicit and engaging lessons. With access to all year levels (F–6), the comprehensive resource suite includes: interactive slideshows, videos, lesson guides, yearly plans and assessment.

Sound Waves Spelling Student Book activities provide students with opportunities to practise and apply the knowledge and skills taught in lessons. Student activities are available as workbooks or online printable pages.

Additional resources, such as charts and cards, enhance the teaching and learning experience.S T A N D A R D

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Sound Waves Spelling is a whole-school program developed by Australian teachers

for use in Australian classrooms.

Informed by research on the best practices for teaching spelling, the program

incorporates four key areas of teaching:

phonemic awareness

the ability to work with phonemes

synthetic phonics

phonics instruction that involves teaching

phoneme–grapheme relationships

morphology

knowledge of the meaningful parts of words:

prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots

etymology understanding of word origins and history

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cliffphone

fishf ff ph

Sound Icon

graphemes

word examples

with pictures

Sound Box

This chart is designed to help students make

correct grapheme choices in spelling lessons and

in their everyday writing.

In Sound Waves Spelling each of the 43 phonemes

is represented by a Sound Box.

When you see a Sound Box, say the phoneme it

represents, not the name of the Sound Icon or the

letter name. For example, say the phoneme /f/, not

fish or the letter name f.

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Word pronunciations have been sourced from

Macquarie Dictionary Online.

Photocopying of copyrighted material is restricted under

the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia. For details of how

copyright laws affect your use of this resource,

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Copyright © Barbara Murray and Terri Watson, 2021. 03/21

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7 Write the words from the brackets as plurals.

Wipe your

on the mat.

[ foot ]

Don’t forget to brush your

.

[tooth ]

There are eighteen

in the race.

[ child ]

I can see three

down by the creek. [ sheep ]

We counted nineteen

in the pond. [ goose ]

We have thirteen

in our cricket team. [ person ]

Irregular Plurals

Suffixes s, es5 Rewrite the words using s or es.

6 Write the words from the bees to match the clues.not smooth very fast opposite of neat having good luck

sticks to things

the sky before it rains a good time to fly a kite

your feet after the beach

Suffix y

cloudy

windy

speedy

sticky

sandy

messy

bumpy

lucky

Unjumble the letters to make words with

that match the clues.

Challenge

bird

legea go away

ealve

from bees nhoey

1000 millilitres relit thieve

stlea umpire

erefree say again

treape rides a horse jckoey

add s

change y to i and add es

key lady donkey baby party story bunny monkey family

The suffix y means having or does.

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Focus Words

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1 Turn to page 85 to segment the Focus Words.

UNIT

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I do not f l very well.

It is time for us to l ve.

We drove down the str t.

On the w kend I rode a pony.

I was tired so I went to sl p.

Is there a spare s t at the table?

May I pl se have some more?

My f t are too big for these shoes.

You can have one sweet treat ch.

feetfeelsleepstreet

eachseatbeachleave

keypleaseweekendbabies

messynineteeneighteeneighty

ponymoneypeoplelitre

bee me seat baby moneyee e ea y ey

2 Help the emu reach the creek. Colour the words with green.

3 Write ee or ea to finish the Focus Words. Write the words in the beehive.

4 Label the pictures with Focus Words.

seasondance twenty litre toe

tryyelp voice even help ever

breakegg bread cry equal ninety

peoplesleep head metre dry

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But wait, there’s more!

There’s even more to Sound Waves Spelling Online than lesson guides and projectable slideshows. Let’s have a look!

Preparation and planningImportant documents for the year, such as the Scope and Sequence, a collation of all of the Helpful Hints in one handy place, letters to parents and more.

Assessment, diagnosis and remediation Each year level includes dedicated assessment that allows you to monitor your students’ progress.

Foundation Skills Checklist and Remediation Pack: This pack includes end-of-term assessment that allows teachers to monitor a student’s ability to identify and use the phonemes and graphemes introduced in the Foundation program. It also includes games, activities and worksheets for targeted remediation where required.

Content Reviews (new): These mid and end-of-term reviews for Years 1–6 assess students’ understanding of phoneme–grapheme relationships and previously taught concepts. The eight reviews per year level include single word and sentence dictation, plus spelling and vocabulary activities.

Spelling Diagnostic Test and Remediation Pack: This pack includes an assessment administered in Semester 1 and again in Semester 2 in Years 1–6. The test allows teachers to diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses in specific spelling concepts. The pack provides games, activities and worksheets for targeted remediation where required. There are two versions of the pack – one for lower years students (Years 1–3) and one for upper years students (Years 4–6).

Black Line MastersPrintable games, templates and worksheets are available in every unit and are also conveniently collated in the Black Line Masters section where you can download bundles in bulk! There are art templates for each phoneme, match-up games, colourful board games, segmenting sheets for Focus Words and Extension Words, and more.

Extra games and activities Every unit includes a range of games and activities to help reinforce students’ phonemic awareness skills and their understanding of phoneme–grapheme relationships.

These include: • online interactive tools • offline game ideas to conduct with the whole class or small groups • activity ideas for Extension Words • Black Line Masters related to the unit.

Complimentary access to the student site Students can log in to the student site to access some of the Sound Waves Spelling Online resources, such as videos and interactive tools.

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