Literacy
Reading Eggs/ Fast Phonics/ Wushka/Decodable and Predictable Readers
Students at Solway are provided with both physical and digital take home books. Physical readers alongside library books witll begin coming home shortly. Digitally logins will also be provided to students for the following programs.
Reading Eggs/ Fast Phonics
All students from Prep to Year 6 will receive a Reading Eggs login. Reading Eggs has a digital take home library and literacy games all designed to improve student’s reading skills. This application is used at home and at school. For seniour students, the Reading Eggs pprogram is levlled up to the Reading Eggspress program.Reading Eggs also has a fast phonics program, and Maths seeds program included in the login. This progam is available to download onto iPads as an application and can also be accessed via the internet in your browser. A Mathletics login will also be provided for students as part of the Reading Eggs.
Wushka
Students in Year 1 and 2 will also have access to Wushka which is a digital take home library. Students can access both levelled readers and a decodable library. This program can be accessed via your browser.
Decodable Readers vs Predictable Readers
Schools use both decodable texts and predictable or repetitive texts for teaching students to read. Predictable texts are early readers that contain repetitive words and sentences. Predictable texts have their foundations in the three cueing systems model of reading. (Does it make sense? Does it sound right? Does it look right?)
Predictable texts have been designed so that beginning readers have to rely on contextual clues to read many of the words that are on the page. These readers contain more complex words with grapheme–phoneme correspondences that the students may have not been taught. Decodable texts are specifically written for beginning readers as they are developing their blending and segmenting skills and their knowledge of the alphabetic code. Decodable texts support students as they practise by using a continuous meaningful text.
Decodable texts contain a very large percentage of words that incorporate the letter-sound relationships that students have been taught. Decodable texts increase in complexity as the student learns more of the phonetic code.
Solway has recently purchased a number of new decodables books to be used as take home readers for students in Prep, 1 and 2 from the Little Learners Love Literacy ‘Pip and Tim’ series. This is in addition to the
digital decodable and predictable library in Wushka for students in 1 and 2. https://wushka.com.au/
If you have any questions about the log ins, libraries or texts available, please contact your child’s class teacher in the first instance or Sarah Watkins, for further assistance.
Book Week 2026
Diary Dates!
The CBCA Book Week will run from August 22 – 28 in 2026. Solway will be recognising this important week by holding a dress up morning parade on Friday 21 August. During the following week, students will be participating in art activities related to short listed books, Prep to 2 will attend a performance based on the shortlisted books and Year 3-6 will be visited by Marc Mc Bride, illustrator of Deltora Quest, and author/illustrator of The Glimme and The World of Monsters.
National Simultaneous Story Time
Last week Solway students joined 2.2 million students in 16,600 locations around Australia to read Luna Roo written by Adma Jackson and Adrian Lloyd. Our youngest and oldest buddies enjoyed the chance to talk all things soccer after reading about a spirited, young kangaroo named Luna Roo who finds herself unexpectedly stepping up as the rookie captain of FC Outback. Tasked with leading her team against the intimidating Bush United in a thrilling Outback football match, Luna must battle pre-match nerves, silence her self-doubt, and trust her teammates to soar to victory.
Thank you to our Librarian Louise Pearson for making this happen.