Level 2 books are now available: full details here.

 

 

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What is Sound English®?

Sound English® arose from the need to provide adults who are new to Australian English with suitable reading material. Although there are many excellent resources available for children, there is a shortage of resources that:

   • have high quality, simple reading material that is of interest to adults
   • support learners as they acquire the sounds used in Australian pronunciation
   • present spelling choices in a carefully structured, easy-to-follow manner.

Each book includes detailed but simple tutor notes.

Who can it help?

Sound English® is an ideal resource for teachers and volunteer tutors of:

   • adults newly arrived in Australia who are beginning to speak and read English
   • adults and secondary school aged students who have difficulty with basic literacy.

How is it structured?

There are four levels:

Preliminary
          
 Ten books that introduce essential sight words and provide illustrations that form a useful basis for discussions.
      Level 1
       
       
       		 Twenty books that introduce 23 basic sounds of Australian English. The language is simple, with a full-colour illustration on every page.
      Level 2
       
       
       		 Twenty books that introduce the remaining 21 sounds using more complex text designed to provide repeated exposure to sounds covered in earlier books.
      Level 3 Information texts relating to daily life in Australia.

Software

Sound English® Software will be an enhancement to the Sound English® Preliminary and Level 1 books. It is based on the highly acclaimed approach used in Greygum Software’s Spinout Stories and PM Story Books Software.

As each page is shown on the screen students can read it aloud, then hear male and female voices model the correct pronunciation in an Australian accent. If a word is causing difficulty students can click on it to hear it spoken by a different voice.

There are also facilities for students to write their own text for each story, then print it and make it into their own book.

The software is suitable for Windows (XP and later) and Mac OS X, and is likely to be released in late 2010.

 

 


Preliminary Book 8
Sandals

 

 

 

 


Level 2 Book 2
A new future for Trudy and Luke