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A Comprehensive Digital Literacy Programme

Sunshine Online offers 2 libraries – Decodable and Levelled – for beginning to fluent readers.

New Zealand schools can apply for a free grant from the Pye Foundation to access both libraries in Sunshine Online free for 2025.

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Sunshine Online now contains two comprehensive libraries to suit all stages of teaching literacy, offering quality texts for children who are just beginning to read, right through to those who are developing fluency and independence.

The Decodable Library supports schools in their structured literacy approach to teaching. In the Decodable Library, 180 decodable books are automatically unlocked as students work their way through the systematic and sequential order of learning. There are phonics activities and a read and record feature. Digital assessment is included. [Note that the Decodable Library is the Australian edition, featuring Australian illustration and voiceover.

Find out more about the Decodable Library here

The Levelled Library is a literacy and maths programme. There are over 900 fiction and non-fiction books, all with voice-over and activities, that can be used for literacy learning and practice with hundreds of skills activities, as well as project-based inquiry for STEAM writing and research. There are 91 books covering 22 levels introducing mathematics. Sunshine Online is organised into three Learning Spaces for Emergent, Early and Fluent readers. 

Find out more about the Levelled Library here

Both libraries can be used in the classroom for independent learning, and for take-home reading.

Testimonials

Read what schools around Aotearoa say about Sunshine Online:

“It has the potential to be a really valuable tool for junior teachers, students or a parent audience of children learning to read with the structured literacy approach. With the instantly recognisable Sunshine Classics interface, teachers will find welcome coherence with the other Sunshine Online and previous Classics offerings.”
Literacy Facilitator [discussing the Sunshine Online Decodable Library]
“The stories, with the engaging ‘decodables characters’ are … relatable. Some structured literacy texts, certainly at the earlier levels, can feel ‘forced’, but for the most part, the character challenges and plot lines are well rendered (even at the single syllable, first 8 phoneme level).”
Literacy Facilitator [discussing the Sunshine Online Decodable Library]
“The downloadable certificates (and digital rewards) are beautifully crafted and potentially motivational for learners, especially in our clusters where they can be shown on the class blogs and Google sites.”
Literacy Facilitator
“One of the most promising uses is house-school partnership with opportunities for learners to practise with families, without having to take a bookbag home.”
Literacy Facilitator
An important affordance was credited to the multimedia, audio-visual elements of a reader being able to listen to the articulation of a sound in isolation and repeat back. This could be gainfully used for follow up practice focussing on phonemes learned and as an “excellent rotation activity”. The feature is then further augmented by being able to see the “proper segmentation and blending” of individual phonemes at word level.
Literacy Facilitator [discussing the Sunshine Online Decodable Library]
"Sunshine Online is the primary online resource used within our junior school. It provides an outstanding range of literacy and maths activities. Our students love it and it is their ‘go to site’. Sunshine Online is used throughout the day, supporting literacy and numeracy. We are impressed by the massive selection of targeted and engaging activities."
Karen HuffadineJunior Team Leader and DP, Cromwell Primary School
"Sunshine Online is an amazing website that is integrated into our daily classroom programme. Teachers use the stories as a shared. It is great for differentiated learning because each group can read stories that are appropriate to their level and then complete the blackline master activities available in the Staffroom."
Angelique WendzichAssociate Principal, Macleans Primary School
"Cockle Bay School teachers, particularly the junior school, utilise Sunshine Online for their engaging, motivating and fun reading activities. It has become part of our Reading Programme, as it helps our learners to develop and consolidate their knowledge, skills and strategies. Our students love it!"
Marie ToddAssistant Principal, Cockle Bay School
“Springlands School has been using Sunshine Online for the last 5 years. During this time our students have loved the books and activities that support the classroom literacy programmes. The ebooks are levelled and easy to access."
Claire HutchisonTeacher Springlands School
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