Library Guides: Fiction and non-fiction for learning activities: Textbooks, literacy teacher resources, readers & phonics

Textbooks for non-fiction learning activities

The Textbook Collection includes school-level textbooks, teacher resources, school readers and non-fiction books for school-age readers.

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School Level Textbooks

School Readers & Systematic Synthetic Phonics

Individual School Readers

The Education Curriculum Collection has a range of school readers in the Textbook collection on Level 1 North of the Giblin Eunson Library.

Want to browse the readers? The readers are located at the call number UniM Giblin Eunson TB 428.6

Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) resources

The Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) approach teaches children the relationships between letters (graphemes) and their corresponding sounds (phonemes) through a structured, multi-level, systematic phonics program.

From Term 1 2025, all Victorian government students from Prep to Grade 2 will be taught using a systematic synthetic phonics approach as part of their reading programs, with a minimum of 25 minutes daily explicit teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness.

The Gilblin Eunson Library provides pre-service teachers with access to InitiaLit Foundation Readers as an example of a structured, SSP program.

Collection location: Sets of InitiaLit Foundation Readers are available in the Kit collections for loan, these are packaged by level for ease of use.

References

Arc. (n.d.). Phonics Plus scope and sequence: A structured progression of grapheme-phoneme correspondences using a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Department of Education. https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/sites/lesson-plans-guidance/1805/Phonics-Plus-scope-and-sequence