Level 1 – Book 16
Sound English is a series of stories for people learning to read English. The series starts with the Preliminary books, which introduce essential sight words. From Level 1 onwards the text focuses on the phonemes (phonics) of Australian English.
The Level 1 and Level 2 books have been structured to introduce the 44 phonemes (phonics) of Australian English. Taken in numerical order, each book in Levels 1 and 2 introduces new phonemes, and reinforces both the phonemes and words used in earlier books (see table below). The text in Level 2 books is more complex than that used in Level 1.  All books have detailed illustrations in full colour to assist with comprehension of the text. Each book includes extensive teaching notes and ideas  to assist volunteer tutors.
| Book | Title | IPA | Phoneme |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friends |  |
e  as in pet |
| 2 | Can you guess? |  |
a  as in pat |
| 3 | Party |    |
d  as in dame t  as in tale |
| 4 | Australians |  |
o  as in top |
| 5 | The market |  |
th as in then |
| 6 | Shiny |  |
sh  as in show |
| 7 | Sports |   |
s  as in seal r  as in rain |
| 8 | Questions |   |
i  as in child |
| 9 | Owen and Joan |   |
oa  as in boat |
| 10 | Can you name them? |  |
a  as in bay |
| Book | Title | IPA | Phoneme |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | A nasty man | |
a  as in grass |
| 12 | Bill and Jill | |
i  as in hill |
| 13 | Mother and son |  |
u  as in mud |
| 14 | Tijan liked to eat |  |
ea  as in seat |
| 15 | My island |  |
a  as in apart |
| 16 | A big mistake | |
u  as in put |
| 17 | Khan goes to kinder |  |
k  as in kitten |
| 18 | Babies |  |
b  as in bet |
| 19 | Lucky Lee |  |
l  as in last |
| 20 | Measuring |   |
z  as in zoo s  as in measure |
