For Educators & Schools
The Magical Codex of Central Deborah is a cross-curricular teaching tool designed to support history, literacy, values education, and social-emotional development.
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Curriculum-Aligned Learning Themes
The story seamlessly integrates with key areas of primary education, rooted in the real heritage of Bendigo, Australia.
🇦🇺 Australian History (Years 3–6)
Explore the Gold Rush era through Ruby and Liam’s journey. The narrative introduces students to historical figures and contextualizes themes of migration, labor, and community-building in 19th-century Victoria.
🤝 Values & Citizenship Education
Central to the story are enduring values: courage, unity, empathy, and intergenerational responsibility. These provide natural entry points for discussions on inclusion, resilience, and ethical decision-making.
🧠 Literacy & Critical Thinking
The layered plot encourages inference, prediction, and reflection. Hidden clues, interactive prompts, and a secret epilogue invite close reading and creative response.
🗺️ Geography & Place-Based Learning
The Central Deborah Gold Mine serves as a real-world anchor for exploring local history, land use, and cultural memory, connecting students to their environment.
Dyslexia-Inclusive Reading Experience ✨
Voodoolily is committed to universal access, ensuring that students with dyslexia, ADHD, or other reading differences can participate fully—and joyfully—in shared reading experiences.
Dyslexia-Friendly Typography: Open letterforms, increased spacing, and high-contrast layout to minimize visual stress.
Embedded Audio Narration: Each chapter is read by professional voice artists, enabling powerful multimodal engagement.
Interactive Word Highlighting: As the audio plays, each word lights up—guiding the reader’s eye and reinforcing phonetic decoding.
Built-in Pop-up Dictionary: Students can tap or hover over any unfamiliar word to instantly see its definition, supporting independent vocabulary acquisition.
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