Welcome to the Sounds~Write website

Sounds~Write is an exciting, new approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing. We offer week-long, intensive courses to classroom practitioners, educational psychologists and members of local authority support teams in this new approach to the teaching of literacy.

The programme is already being used extensively in primary and secondary schools throughout Devon, Wigan, Salford, Kent, Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and Australia, as well as in dozens of individual schools around the country.

It is designed to be fully integrated within the literacy hour and is taught in a structured and highly effective format for whole-classes, groups and individuals. Our use of an interactive and well-integrated phonic approach to the teaching of literacy accelerates the speed at which pupils of all ages acquire basic skills.

Our approach draws together modern research findings to produce a sequential and explicit alphabet code-oriented programme for teaching all pupils to read and spell.

Sounds~Write meets all the requirements for a phonics programme as defined by the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Familes (DCSF - formerly the DfES). The DCSF's independent assessors have recently (Dec 2007) scrutinised our self-assessment and approved its accuracy.  See our entry on the DCSF Standards Website for full details.

Sounds~Write's interactive whiteboard software for Smartboard can now be purchased using eLearning credits (eLCs). For more on eLCs see this page.