Sunshine Online Decodable Library for Parents

Teaching your child sounds and letters

The Decodable Library is the perfect digital resource to support a systematic, sequential, synthetic phonics approach for children aged four and older. Unique features of the Decodable Library include:

180 fully decodable fiction and non-fiction titles
A strong Scope and Sequence from simple code, through complex code to extended code
Pure articulation of the phonemes (sounds) modelled for children
Children record and play back their own articulation of the sounds, and their blending of them to make words
Children can listen to the text being read, with decoding support if required, or they can read it independently
Children record themselves reading the text, review it, and re-record it if they wish
Activity worksheets, lesson plans, assessments are all provided.

Sequence of learning with the Decodable Library

Listen and Say activity

Children review the focus phonemes to hear a model of the pure articulation
Children listen to correct segmentation and blending of phonemes and words
Children record themselves segmenting and blending words
Children listen to their own recording
Children can self-review and re-record

Read activity

Option to listen to the text with narration and highlighting
Option to hear individual words segmented and blended

Record activity

Children 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

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 student recording

Parent review

Listen to children’s recordings
Review children’s progress
Track progress with summative assessment

Student Dashboard and Reporting

Parents can opt for a managed or unmanaged account. We recommend managed accounts, particularly if using the Decodable Library, which is designed to be accessed by children sequentially. A managed account provides individual logins for children, who will have a personalised avatar and a dashboard where they can see their results. With the managed account, parents will have access to an easy-to-use administration area. Parents can allocate work, track results and listen to children’s recordings. The unmanaged account provides a simplified way of giving children access to all material in the Libraries, but no data is saved.

Parent resources

In the Decodable Library, downloadable resources include the complete Scope and Sequence, lesson plans and student activity sheets. There are also additional printable assessment documents.