In a recent survey of recent Sounds~Write trainees in northwest England, we learned that about half ... (more)
Monday 13 July 2009
Community Centre
NSW 2480, Australia
Sounds~Write is an exciting, new approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing. Our week-long, intensive courses have now been attended by over 5,000 classroom practitioners, educational psychologists and members of local authority support teams. Read some testimonials to Sounds~Write.
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 scrutinised our self-assessment and approved its accuracy. See our entry on the DCSF Standards Website for full details.
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for the Open University's new Sounds~Write course: Linguistic Phonics: Teaching Reading (Course Code: GE068) |
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| The Literacy Blog Informed opinion on the latest developments in literacy from John Walker, director of Sounds~Write: |
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