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Sunshine Phonics in Schools
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Decodable books are simple books that are written for the beginning reader and contain the specific grapheme–phoneme correspondences students have learned. This provides learners with the opportunity to use their developing segmenting and blending skills to read words in order to develop automaticity, or the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly, and experience independent reading success.
Decodable books encourage children to sound out words using decoding strategies rather than guessing from pictures or predicting from other cues. They can be introduced once beginning readers have learned some simple grapheme–phoneme correspondences and can blend from left to right.
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Teacher Resources
There is a separate section on Sunshine Phonics called Teacher Resources. Here teachers can access the teaching notes, assessment, overview skills charts and printable activity sheets. This support material makes classroom planning easy and supports teachers in effectively linking print and technology.
Program Features
Sunshine Phonics includes 5 sets with each set containing 20 text books which unlock progressively.
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Decodable vocabulary with some high-frequency words.
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100 enjoyable stories which include: Listen and Say, Read and Record.
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Systematic progression for learning the phonemes and graphemes
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Full-color illustrations to support meaning.
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Comprehensive Teachers' Books that include lesson plans, activity sheets and assessment.
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The introduction of non-fiction titles and Set 4
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Created by talented authors and illustrators
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Every Set includes student Activity Books in full color.
Student Dashboard and Reporting
Students can view their progress in the student dashboard. Here they can view what books have been read, listen to their recordings and view their assessment. Teachers can also view the dashboard for any of their students.
School Admin
The teacher admin area is where teachers can add students and classes, assign text, view students progress and listen to students reading of the text and sounds. Teachers can also send students messages of encouragement which students can access from their dashboard.
