What do the teachers and teaching assistants who have attended our courses recently think about the course?

- "I have very much enjoyed this course. I considered myself to be a good teacher of phonics, but have now realized that I had gaps in my knowledge and that perhaps the words that I've used to explain spellings may have confused children in the past. I am inspired to use what I have learnt with my own children and I'm looking forward to the challenges of adapting the Sounds-Write approach to Braille. A very useful 5 days - thank you."

An exciting approach to the teaching
of reading, spelling and writing

Sounds Write

Sounds-Write is a quality first phonics programme and is acknowledged by the DfE as meeting all its criteria for an effective phonics teaching programme - see our entry on the DfE site for details. It is an exciting and highly successful approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing. Our very highly-rated, intensive courses have now been attended by over seven thousand classroom practitioners, educational psychologists and members of local authority support teams. The programme is already being used extensively in primary and secondary schools throughout Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Australia, Zambia and Papua New Guinea. And we are now on Facebook.

Sounds-Write and the DfE's Y1 Screening Check

Sounds-Write teaches everything children need for this new mandatory test. Not all phonics programmes do. For details please download this document.

The DfE Evaluates Sounds-Write

The DfE sent an inspector to monitor a Sounds-Write course in January 2012. If you are interested in evaluating phonics programmes, you will want to read this complete, unedited copy of the report.

Government Match Funding

Sounds-Write 4- and 5-day phonics courses in England are eligible for the government's new match-funding (or 'matched funding') scheme. For details of this and how to apply, please refer to this page on the DfE website.

If You Want Evidence...

To see just how successful our approach in providing First Rate Phonics has been, please click on the following link: Report to schools: Longitudinal study of Literacy Development from 2003 - 2009, following 1607 pupils throughout Key Stage 1.

Sounds-Write meets the criteria for a high quality phonics programme as defined by the UK Government's Department for Education.

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