In a recent survey of recent Sounds~Write trainees in northwest England, we learned that about half ... (more)
Tuesday 07 September 2010
Linslade Lower School (View Map)
Leighton Buzzard, Beds
Sounds~Write is an exciting, new approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing. Our highly-rated, intensive courses have now been attended by over 7,000 classroom practitioners, educational psychologists and members of local authority support teams. 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. Read some testimonials to Sounds~Write.
Sounds~Write meets all the requirements for a phonics programme as defined by the UK Government's Department for Education, whose independent assessors have scrutinised our self-assessment and approved its accuracy. See our entry on the DCSF Standards Website for full details.
| The outstanding progress made in literacy by over 1500 pupils taught by the Sounds~Write approach has been tracked across the whole of Key Stage One - |
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| The Literacy Blog Informed opinion on the latest developments in literacy from John Walker, a director of Sounds~Write: |
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