Sunshine Classics

The Literacy Program You Love - in a Digital Format

The Sunshine Classics digital program features titles that are tried and tested! These books have been used for many years to teach children all around the world to read and to develop a love of reading. The continuing success of this series is due to:
• Storylines that appeal to students and include humour and lovable characters
• Books written by renowned children’s authors such as Joy Cowley, Jill Eggleton and Margaret Mahy
• Carefully levelled texts with gradual introduction of new vocabulary
• The right balance of support and challenge needed for beginning readers

310 Levelled E-books that Children Want to Read

The Classics e-books include a range of special features that make them perfect for use on iPads, interactive whiteboards and classroom computers.
• Text highlighting – word by word at emergent levels and then sentence by sentence (up to level 25)
• Audio support – students can choose to have the text read to them and can also hear individual words or sentences (up to level 25)
• Texts covering reading levels 1 to 30
• High-frequency words focus for each text
• Text annotation tools such as highlighter and text boxes

Over 1000 Interactive activities reinforce key literacy skills

Each e-book is followed by three interactive activities that explore phonics and words, comprehension, fluency and writing.
• Phonics and Words: Activities include learning about the letters of the alphabet, letter blends, word families, rhyming words and high-frequency words.
• Comprehension: Activities include matching words or sentences to pictures, sentence building, story sequencing, cloze and quizzes.
• Fluency: Students can record themselves reading the text and play this back.
• Writing: Students respond to their reading in a variety of creative ways through writing.

Easy-to-Use Student Tracking and Administration System

Sunshine Classics includes an administration system that allows teachers to easily organize students and to track their progress. Teachers can allocate texts to individuals and groups for guided, independent or home reading:
• Phonics and Words: Activities include learning about the letters of the alphabet, letter blends, word families, rhyming words and high-frequency words.
• E-books students have opened and the time spent reading them.
• Activities completed and the results.
• Recordings of students reading the text to listen to and printable Reading Record Sheets.
• Students’ reading history
NB Schools can also choose to have one single username and password for all students to use.

All Parts of Your Literacy Program using Multiple Devices

Sunshine Classics can be used for:
• Whole class teaching using an interactive whiteboard or Apple TV.
• Guided reading using iPads (or the printed versions).
• Independent reading using classroom computers and iPads.
• Home reading with students accessing the program on devices in the home.
NB Schools can also choose to have one single username and password for all students to use.

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‘I LOVE the texts, the kids LOVE the quality of the texts - they are CLASSICS!!’
Sue, School Teacher, NSW