Overview of the five-day Sounds~Write training course

Our popular and heavily subscribed five-day training courses offer:

• a theoretical overview of the programme, which is soundly based on the principles underlying how children learn most effectively and explains why many of the approaches to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing fail such a large number of our pupils
• a discussion of criterion-referenced assessment for the purpose of informing our teaching practices
• all the main lessons in our programme, with supervised practice on each one
• an introduction to and practical workshops on teaching through errors, lesson planning and reading in text
• videos of the programme being taught to a whole class, small groups and individually
• a discussion of the most popular reading schemes and how they can be adapted to fit with the Sounds~Write teaching approach
• a guided assignment at the end of the course to help organise and consolidate what has been covered in the course.

A sample timetable can be found here (will open in a new window). You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, if you do not have it installed already.