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Sunshine Online Decodable Library

The Decodable Library contains 180 child-centred, relatable titles, both fiction and non-fiction. The titles follow a synthetic, systematic, cumulative, and sequential scope and sequence, so that students are exposed to phonemes and graphemes sequentially and then read meaningful texts containing only those sounds and letters that they have learnt.

Components of the Sunshine Online Decodable Library
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Systematic Progression

The titles are automatically unlocked in sequential order ensuring that students follow the recommended systematic progression.

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Listen and Say

In the Listen and Say activity, students review phonemes and record themselves segmenting and blending words.

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Read

In the Read activity, students can listen to the text being read, and read it themselves.

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Record

The Record activity requires students to record themselves reading the text, they can self-evaluate and review their recording.

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Assessment

There are digital assessments at the end of each set of books.

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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 many opportunities for learning in the classroom and at home, and student independent learning.


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
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    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


    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.

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    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.


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    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. 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.

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