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SUNSHINE ONLINE

New for 2025 - Sunshine Online Decodable Library

New Zealand schools are eligible for a grant from the Pye Foundation to access Sunshine Online free. Apply now for 2025.

Sunshine Online offers two libraries - Decodable and Levelled.

Decodable Library

180 meaningful, engaging titles and activities - fiction and non-fiction.

Levelled Library

Over 900 fiction and non-fiction books and activities (levels 1-30).


Comprehensive Digital Literacy Programme

Two vast libraries - Decodable and Levelled - offer quality texts for children who are just beginning to read, right through to those who are developing fluency and independence.

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Decodable Library

The Decodable Library is the perfect digital resource to support a systematic, sequential, synthetic phonics approach for children aged four and older.

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Levelled Library

Containing over 900 of your favourite levelled Sunshine books with extension activities. Teachers can select and assign appropriate titles to students to best fit their learning journey.

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Teacher Support and Resources

Many downloadable resources are available. These include skills charts, teacher notes, student activity sheets, lists of words to practise reading, and printable assessment documents. There is a detailed Scope and Sequence for the Decodable Library.

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Management System

Managed accounts provide individual logins for students to enable the saving and tracking of data. Teachers have access to an easy-to-use administration area. Unmanaged accounts provide a simplified way of giving students access to all material in either Library, but no data is saved.