Tim sat
Nan
Tan - Tan
Is it a ...?
Kip has a nap
Zac the dog
The big box
Red sand
Sant the ant is ill
SPELD SA Phonic Books: North America
Our Phonic Books support the teaching of reading by using a structured synthetic phonics approach. They are designed to build on the pre-reading skills of oral language and phonological awareness needed for reading success.
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Initial Code
Initial Code Unit 11 & Bridging
The Flash helps
Lunch for Sant the ant
Kev at the shop
What's in the sack?
The Flash is back
The kids' band rocks!
The quest for a quoll
Catch me!
Ken at the track
The swift jet
Extended Code – Set 1
Sant and Kale
Three great pals
Sant the disco ant
Sant's first race
Quest to the shed
Lilly's loud crowd
Cooper and Tan - Tan
Ride a bike or fly a kite
Camping in the bush
A day with Doug
Extended Code – Set 2
Spotty's birthday
Little legs on the hill
A warm spring day
Hands in the air
Let's unite!
Avoid sharp rocks
Sant dreams of Mars
A kite contest
Riverside versus Dingoes
It's a mystery
About the North America Edition
The SPELD SA Phonic Book Series complements the teaching of reading and writing using a structured phonics approach. This series of decodable books follows the Sounds-Write scope and sequence with a speech to print orientation.
The stories feature loveable characters Sant the ant and friends, progressing over four sets of 10 titles each.
Freely available to download from our website and purchase if you would like the books in your classroom or at home.
SPELD SA had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Aoife Mc Namara, a speech-language pathologist and reading consultant from West Coast Literacy, BC Canada. We have worked to align our decodable texts to North American spellings.
“We adore these books because....
They are oriented from speech to print, meaning they begin with what children are already familiar with—the sounds of our language! These sounds are then mapped onto written language, specifically letters.
Each book features multiple repetitions of target sound-spelling correspondences. This repetitive practice is crucial for students to orthographically map new words and letter-sound correspondences, eventually turning all words into 'sight words."
- Aoife Mc Namara
SPELD SA aims to help Aboriginal students engage with phonic books by having characters, content and settings that reflect Aboriginal communities.
We understand that the content, settings and characters may not reflect all Aboriginal people and their experiences but hope that Aboriginal students learning to read can find some familiarity in and connection with these books in their literacy journey.
“These decodable books - I love... They develop in complexity as they go along. Once children learn the sound correspondences through blending and segmenting activities and practise these skills in the code knowledge you can start practising these skills reading decodable text. There is quite a bit of material here (in the SPELD SA Phonic books) that you can practise on, which is another reason why I like the books. In many decodable readers all you'll get is 4 or 5 words. Not only have you got that, you've got two sentences to read on one page. These develop in complexity as they go along. Books like this are a huge help.” John Walker - Sounds-Write Founder
Decodable Book cover artwork
Elizabeth Close is an Anangu woman from the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara language groups in the APY Lands in Outback South Australia. She was born in Adelaide and spent much of her upbringing in remote communities, learning her language and receiving cultural education.
‘This artwork represents the literacy and numeracy learning journey, and the path towards independent learning. The circles represent the collaborative learning and support around children with specific learning difficulties, including children, schools, families, SPELD SA and others.'
Elizabeth Close, Artist.
