2025 SMART Foundation
How to teach sounds, letters and common words to beginners.
An hour of supplementary training, digital downloads and access to a membership site for teachers of children in their first year of school.
2025 Order Now
$115 per person for access now until the end of 2025
2025 Includes Slides for Phonics Daily Review
A new resource!
+ Decoding using Synthetic Phonics of taught letter - sound relationships and common words
+ Powerpoint display that covers the whole year to save you time
SMART Foundation teaches sounds and letters from the
‘Word of the Week’
and common words from
‘The Sentence of the Week’!
Sounds and letters are taught explicitly and systematically in a carefully structured sequence. The 'Word of the Week' inspires curiosity, excitement, hands-on shared experiences, rich oral language and most importantly…fun…and that makes learning stick!
‘The Sentence of the Week’ places the most commonly seen words into meaningful sentences. These common words are explicitly taught by the classroom teacher and there is also home learning to support this called…‘My Weekly Words’.
Enjoy a meaningful way to teach sounds, letters and common words in a related way that makes the most of meaning!
You and your kids will have so much fun!
In the membership site you'll have access to hour long SMART Foundation Course that is supported by printable notes and have exclusive access to digital downloads (see below) that will save you heaps of time!
What's Included...
The 8 Digital Downloads...
*The resources are in Sassoon font for reading as students need to learn recognise/read different fonts for reading but just learn one for handwriting. Only the handwriting materials are available in different fonts (Vic Cursive Script, Sassoon, SA Beginner, NSW manuscript and QLD beginner).
PLUS Access to our Membership site...
+ 35 ten minute lessons for the children, presented by Michelle hosted on our site
+ Ideas and inspiration for the whole year laid out week by week
+ Short revision videos for home
+ The ability to have your questions answered by Michelle
$115 per person for access now until the end of 2025
2025 Order NowThe SMART Foundation Sequence
The structured sequence of sounds, letters and common words to build confidence in beginners.
Phase 1: c, a, t, n, i, p
12 Common words: the, on, that, had, a, it, is, in, big, this, and, off
Phase 2: s, u, e, l, g, b, d
12 Common words: was, up, but, not, went, get, I, to, of, my, they, are
Phase 3: o, j, m, h, f, r
15 Common words: we, can, with, play, he, will, just, have, like, her, come, here, see, an, old
Phase 4: z, y, w, x, v
9 Common Words: do, our, Mum, Dad, said, look, at, next, your
Phase 5: ar, k, ng, ay, sh
12 Common words: you, must, down, going, all, his, Sunday, love, she, could, over, by
Phase 6: ck, ea, ch, er, ea, th
9 Common words: weekend, back, were, then, eat, which, them, there, other
Phase 7: or, th, mb, wh, ee, q, u
12 Common words: bring, from, one, has, two, been, looking, some, us, so, much, holiday
Phase 8: a, tch, air, igh
10 Common words: where, what, looked, watch, before, into, friend, for, right, now
Phase 9: a – e, i – e, o – e,
9 Common words: when, good, make, who, first, their, well, because, home
