Smart Cards
One platform. Three powerful literacy systems.
Teach phonological awareness, phonics and morphology from one cloud-based platform designed for educators, speech pathologists, tutors and intervention specialists.
Whether you're working with one student or an entire school, Smart Cards provides structured, systematic content that makes explicit literacy instruction simple to deliver.
About Smart Cards
Smart Cards is a cloud-based literacy platform built by educators for educators. It helps instructors deliver explicit, structured, systematic literacy instruction using evidence-based teaching practices.
Smart Cards includes comprehensive banks of flash card packs, however the premium feature of the app is the ability to create content tailored to the teaching sequence and needs of the students. Students can study card packs, ticking off cards as they go, and have the option to revise challenging cards. Content can also be shared with students for further practise at home. The layout of Smart Cards is user-friendly and perfect for online teaching.
Access resources anywhere with automatic updates and secure cloud storage. No more emailing files, backing up devices or worrying about losing your data.
Choose the subscription that's right for you—or combine all three to create a complete literacy teaching toolkit. You can cancel your subscription at any time.
Please email feedback and suggestions to support@startsmarttasmania.com.au.
Three Subscription Options
Phonological Awareness
Develop the essential sound skills that underpin reading and spelling success.
- Engaging blending and segmenting activities
- Syllable level
- Onset and rime level
- Individual sound level
Perfect for early childhood and intervention students.
Phonics
Deliver explicit synthetic phonics instruction with confidence.
- Extensive word banks
- Structured teaching sequence
- Customisable teaching lists
- Revision activities
- Reading and spelling practice
- Instructor-created content
- Initial assessment tool
Suitable for classroom teaching, intervention, tutoring and speech pathology.
Morphology
Build vocabulary, spelling and reading comprehension through structured word study.
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- Latin roots
- Greek combining forms
- Suffix rules
- Revision content
Ideal for older students, intervention programs and structured literacy instruction.
Why Smart Cards?
Designed specifically for structured literacy teaching.
- Cloud-based iPad access
- Automatic updates
- Secure online storage
- Create your own teaching content
- Evidence-based instructional sequence
- Designed by practising educators and speech pathologists
- Suitable for schools, private practice and home learning
- Flexible subscriptions
Who is Smart Cards for?
Smart Cards has been designed for individuals delivering explicit literacy instruction, including:
- Classroom teachers
- Learning support teachers
- Speech pathologists
- Tutors
- Allied health assistants
- Homeschool families
- Intervention specialists
Whether you're supporting one student or hundreds, Smart Cards scales with your needs.
Why We Built Smart Cards
Smart Cards was created after years of working directly with students experiencing literacy difficulties.
We wanted a platform that combined evidence-based teaching with practical classroom usability—saving educators time while providing engaging, effective learning experiences for students.
Everything within Smart Cards has been developed by experienced educators who understand how literacy is taught in real classrooms and therapy settings.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Start Smart Tasmania
Start Smart Tasmania was established in 2017 when a speech pathologist, Tania Innes, and a teacher, Clare Weare, sat down to have a chat about how they could best meet students' language needs in the classroom. This innocuous conversation resulted in a growing practice that now offers a range of speech pathology and education services to Launceston and the surrounding regions of Tasmania. It was through our Literacy Intervention services that we first recognised the need for tools like Smart Cards. Every feature within Smart Cards has been shaped by real teaching experience and a commitment to improving literacy outcomes. We teamed up with IT Zen and the rest, as they say, is history. For more information on who we are and what we offer please visit www.startsmarttasmania.com.au.
Contact
Questions, feedback or suggestions? We'd love to hear from you.
support@startsmarttasmania.com.au