The MultiLit eLibrary is a digital reading platform featuring Australian-developed books to support your students as they learn to read. An annual subscription provides access to 240 decodable InitiaLit Readers, as well as the Ignite Series of Firecracker Books: hi-lo books for students in Years 4–6.
Books can be read on desktop computers and mobile devices (including smartphones and tablets) at school or at home. Teachers can easily manage classes, add or remove students, and assign book levels via the administration dashboard.
What is included?
InitiaLit Readers Levels 1–9: Series 1 & 2
- single grapheme–phoneme correspondences
- digraphs ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘th’, ‘wh’, ‘ee’, ‘oo’ and ‘ay’
- CVCC CCVC.
InitiaLit Readers Levels 10–16: Series 1
- Foundation review
- ai/ay, ee/ea, oa/ow, igh/y, ew/ue
- ar, or/ore, er/ir/ur, ear/eer, air/are
- split digraph
- ou/ow, au/aw, oi/oy
- vowel digraph review
- Year 1 review.
InitiaLit Readers Levels 10–16: Series 2 – The Wattle Series
- fiction and non-fiction texts
- simpler storylines and comprehension questions.
Firecracker Books, The Ignite Series
- independent or teacher-led reading sessions
- home reading
- as a supplementary resource for literacy intervention programs.
InitiaLit Reader sample
Frog’s Pond, Written by Colette Read and Illustrated by Heidi Cooper Smith.
Summary: Frog loves life at the pond. When some newcomers arrive, the pond soon becomes crowded, noisy and polluted. The animals come up with some rules to make living together more enjoyable.
Level 16.7: Year 1 review
Word count: 278
Recommended for: The Wattle Series is specifically designed for children in the second or third year of schooling who need more support with decoding. It is simpler than the first series of InitiaLit Readers Levels 10–16.
What makes our books unique?
InitiaLit Readers
These delightful and engaging follow the InitiaLit phonic sequence to help students build confidence in decoding skills and reading fluency.
Every title includes instructions and pre- and post-reading activities to help teachers, parents and caregivers use the books effectively. Titles are numbered based on the difficulty level of each book. They are designed to be read sequentially, allowing children to gain confidence and skills level by level.
One reader in each level is a Shared Reader, allowing an adult to provide extra support by reading together with a child (alternating pages). Shared Readers allow for the introduction of more complex words that adults can help children learn, understand and add to their vocabulary.
Firecracker Books
Firecracker Books aim to spark the interest of older students in reading by providing engaging and accessible books at an appropriate level of difficulty.
Fiction titles combine relatable stories with appealing illustrations. Each fiction book includes questions at the end to encourage further discussion and deepen comprehension.
Non-fiction titles in The Ignite Series cover topics such as fascinating animals, incredible inventions, ancient civilisations, crazy plants and extreme sports. The books include glossaries for definition of unfamiliar terms, and quick quizzes for students to test their knowledge.
Online samples of some Ignite Series books can be accessed here. You can also purchase printed copies of Firecracker Books here.
New features
When you log in, you will notice the eLibrary has been enhanced to include features and functionality requested by our users.
These include:
- a new three-tiered user structure: Administrator, Teacher and Student. Administrators manage the school’s overall account, and Teachers can now manage their assigned classes and students.
- an option to allocate series and levels of books to individual children, and see which books have been read
- an easy-to-navigate administration dashboard
- a new approach for student access, using Class and Student Codes to log in instead of email address and password
- printable labels to provide students with access details.