About These Series
WINGS Phonics (award-winning) Decodables
Make reading and decoding easy with quirky tales that amuse and engage. The series focus is on foundational skills for phonological awareness, pedagogy, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. All stories have been produced by Australian authors and illustrators using humour and entertaining imagery that adds meaning to the simple texts. Each book comes with teaching support with tips on what to do before, during and after reading. This clear in-book instruction structures the learning into easy-to-follow stages so that educators can suitably introduce the letter-sound relationships, segmenting the sounds to decode words, and thus increasing their students' reading with greater confidence. Books are currently segmented into sets (packs) so you can build your program around your students’ needs. Category winner Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2021.
WINGS Consolidation Phonics
Consolidate skills or take students further in phonics with these Consolidation Phonics sets (packs). Make reading fun while exploring phonic fundamentals and introducing a wider range of phonemes, blends, digraphs, spelling patterns and more to engage and educate children of all ages. Longer stories and tales to make you laugh.
WINGS Phonics A - Z
Phonics Aa - Zz is a collection of 26 entertaining stories that allow children to read and hear letters and their various sounds used at the beginning, middle and end of words. These books combine two of the most common teaching practices - synthetic & analytic phonics - to enable children to improve their reading, comprehension and vocabulary skills.
WINGS Guided &/ or Take Home Readers
Professionally levelled fiction and nonfiction literacy books perfect for improving reading fluency and confidence in children in K-3+, from levels 1 - 26. Hundreds of titles making learning to read fun, with surprise endings to increase interest.
WINGS Traditional Tales
Classic old favourites brought to life in this multi-cultural collection, 124 titles from levels 5 - 26. Covering a variety of text types, themes and tales from around the world, enabling comparative literature studies across different cultures. Packs include Cumulative & Verse tales, Fables, Fairytales, Folktales, Giant, Ogre & Beast tales, Fools’ tales, How & Why (pourquoi) tales, Myth, Hero & Tall tales, and Trickster tales.
WINGS Science
Inspiring children to discover concepts and processes in a hands-on way. Students will learn to communicate scientific understanding using evidence-based solutions. Packs include Biological Science, Chemical Science, Earth & Space Science and Physical Science. Activities provided at five levels of complexity. Shortlisted in the 2016 Educational Australia Awards.
WINGS Science Inquiry ~ Solar System
Solar System Science readers allow young minds to explore planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. Gives children tools to research, investigate answers and report their findings and have fun with inquiry-orientated activities to make them think about what it takes to go beyond Earth. Science Inquiry encourages children to actively ask questions, summarise and communicate outcomes and engage in investigations that they design. This avoids the practice of children passively absorbing information.
WINGS Mathematics
This series helps children understand the language used in mathematics. By focusing on the meaning of words, symbols and functions, we improve mathematical literacy and give children the know-how to move forward and better interpret assessment questions with confidence.
Foundation Readers: Making vocabulary and mathematics accessible to K-2+ children. 12 readers which use storytelling and visuals to explore concepts and language that students can apply in the real world. Matched to the Australian curriculum.
Mathematics Comics: 5 fun comic readers which use role-play to explore symbols and language to solve real-world problems. Covering the various terms used in narrative test questions for plus, take, times, divide and equals.
Big Books
Grow your classic Traditional Tales collection. 12 big books to help you create an exciting shared learning activity for young children. The large format holds their attention, allowing everyone to take part in the story. Perfect for developing children's listening and reading skills, keeping children engaged and on-task in large groups, creating group discussions about story and structure and making reading an enjoyable experience. Also available in standard reader size.
DEEP END Readers (for middle to upper primary)
Higher level chaptered, fiction books to generate discussion, build vocabulary and develop comprehension skills through a wide range of text types and themes. A core literacy series encouraging and teaching children to engage, question and think more deeply in relation to subjects that matter in the world. For ages 8-13.
Picture Books
An enchanting collection of award-winning, internationally recognised picture books with beautifully illustrated, timeless stories that truly engage young readers of all ages.
LS Online Books
A growing online world of books, games, activities and engaging cross-curriculum content to support the development of English literacy skills in years K-6. Boost your school's literature collections, phonics and literacy programs with over 1500+ educational books, exercises and easy-to-follow learning guides created by trusted educators to support students in improving their reading, writing and comprehension skills.
Online features include:
- Phonics books and instructional videos for letter and sound recognition.
- Levelled readers with guides and interactive activities such as comprehension quizzes, projects, videos or games appropriate to each category of book.
- Mathematics and science readers for contextual learning, modelling concepts and vocabulary.
- Picture books and traditional tales to nurture cultural connections.
- Sing-alongs, picture dictionaries and interactive learning activities.
Multiple people can access the same resources at the same time; teachers and students at school and students and their families from home 24/7, and from the comfort of their couch.
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Ph: 0413 381 662 maryleptos@literacyspeaking.com.au
