About This Book The Targeting Phonics series uses systematic synthetic phonics and follows the learning progression in the Australian Curriculum. This book includes a short revision of the 26 letters covered in Book 1, then students learn: the long vowel sounds a, e, i, o and u, and different ways of spelling them. the consonant digraphs sh, ch, th (voiced and unvoiced), ph, ng and wh. about using the letters c and k when spelling words with the hard c sound. about the soft c and soft g sounds.