Sunshine Online Decodable Library
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(Please note the Sunshine Online Decodable Library is currently our Australian edition, featuring Australian illustration and voiceover).
Systematic Progression
The titles are automatically unlocked in sequential order ensuring that students follow the recommended systematic progression. Alternatively, teachers can assign titles they select to students.
Listen and Say
In the Listen and Say activity, students review phonemes and record themselves segmenting and blending words.
Read
In the Read activity, students can listen to the text being read, and read it themselves.
Record
The Record activity requires students to record themselves reading the text, they can self-evaluate and review their recording.
Assessment
There are digital assessments at the end of each set of books.
Teacher Review
The easy-to-use teacher administration features lets teachers listen to student recordings, and review and track their progress.
Sequence of learning with the Decodable Library
Three digital activities provide opportunities for classroom, home and independent reading practice.
Listen and Say
- Students listen to a pure articulation of the focus phonemes
- Students listen to correct segmentation and blending of phonemes and words
- Students record themselves segmenting and blending words
- Students listen to their own recording
- Students can self-review and re-record
Read
- Option to listen to the text with narration and highlighting
- Option to hear individual words segmented and blended
Record
- Students record their reading of the text
- Listen to playback
- Self-evaluate and review
- Practise with repeated readings
- Opportunity to independently review, self-evaluate, self-correct with re-reading and re-recording
Teacher Review
- Listen to students’ recordings
- Review students’ progress
- Track progress with summative assessment
Assessment
- Assessment at completion of each set of texts
- Articulation of focus phoneme knowledge
- Segmenting and blending of real and nonsense words
- Tricky word identification
- Teacher evaluation of students’ recording
Teacher Support and Resources
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.
Managed Administration
Managed administration allows schools to set up students and allocate individual passwords so that an administrator or teacher can monitor progress and report using recorded data.
Assigning Work
Teachers can assign a set of titles. Titles unlock sequentially in the correct order as they are completed by the student. Each set is followed by an assessment. Alternatively, the teacher can assign titles individually.
Assigned titles are fully unlocked and students can do the activities in any order. This is a good option for take-home reading, where the student does not need to do the Listen and Say activity again.
Student Results
Teachers can view a student’s results and history and listen to the student’s recordings for the ‘Listen and Say’, ‘Record’ and ‘Assessment’ activities.
Teacher resources
Many downloadable resources are available in the Teacher Resources area. These include Scope and Sequence, term planner, quick teacher notes, full teachers’ notes, student activity sheets (both phonics and comprehension) and lists of words for students to practice reading.
Assessment
As well as the digital assessments, there are also additional printable assessment documents, including screening tests, more phonics assessments, assessment of reading accuracy (comprising unseen texts), and comprehension assessment for those unseen texts and an encoding assessment.
