Issue 132
Term 1, 2025
A Good Lesson To Learn: New Systematic Synthetic Phonics Lesson Packs For F–2
Librarians play a vital role in sharing ready-made phonics and morphology lessons with early years teachers.
The phonics tide of change
Phonics teaching is often in the headlines. Recently, the focus has been on curriculum changes that align with the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics (SSP), an evidence-based approach that is now supported across Australian states and territories.
These changes have created strong demand among teachers in Foundation to Year 2 for phonics lesson plans and resources. While many schools are turning to commercial programs, it’s good to know that there are free evidence-aligned lesson packs from the Literacy Hub being released throughout 2025.
Where should teachers start?
It can be overwhelming for teachers who are new to SSP to know where to begin. Even for experienced teachers, workload pressures may mean it is difficult to develop all the necessary resources to implement an SSP program.
The Literacy Hub, an Australian Government–funded initiative, has started releasing phonics and morphology lesson packs for teachers to pick up and use straight away.
These free downloadable resources have been written by literacy specialists for Australian classrooms. They save teachers time by supporting students to review already learnt content, build phonemic awareness, and develop reading, spelling, and handwriting skills—all in one lesson.
Each pack is aligned with the Literacy Hub phonics progression and consistent with the Literacy Hub phonics instructional model and explicit instruction principles, as well as being aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9. The packs contain:
- ready-to-use classroom slides, supported by clear teacher notes to help with consistent delivery
- student sheets to check students’ understanding
- decodable words and sentences for independent practice
- upper-case letter mini lessons
- progress monitoring tools.
Each lesson pack can be adapted and edited to meet the needs of individuals, classrooms, or groups of students, including updating the font to meet the requirements of individual schools or jurisdictions.
More support on literacyhub.edu.au
Classroom resources are only one part of the literacy puzzle. The Literacy Hub also offers:
- planning and curriculum documents
- evidence-aligned professional learning
- strategies to support students’ literacy development
- information for school leaders and families.
Get started today supporting your teachers with delivering phonics lessons in the classroom.