Membership pricing
Gain full access to the Sounds-Write programme with our new annual membership. Learn at your own pace through fully online, on-demand, and personalised training pathways. Receive comprehensive resources designed to equip you with everything you need to teach reading, writing, and spelling effectively.
Sign up now for a September start!
Create confident readers — your journey starts with the right tools.
Individuals
Teaching phonics with confidence starts here.
Includes the following:
- Printed Sounds-Write manual.
- Start learning and teaching straight away.
- Professional Development at every stage of your career.
- Broad library of courses, videos, and live webinars.
- Word lists, interactive whiteboard activities, dictations, and more.
- Hundreds of decodable texts.
Price excludes any applicable tax, which will be applied at point of invoicing.
Schools
Empower every teacher, in every classroom, every day.
Includes the following:
- Start learning and teaching straight away.
- Tailored Training Pathways for each member of your team.
- Broad library of courses, videos, and live webinars.
- Word lists, interactive whiteboard activities, dictations, and more.
- Hundreds of decodable texts.
- Track your team’s CPD progress.
- No hidden costs.
Price excludes any applicable tax, which will be applied at point of invoicing.
MATs
For MATs with 6+ or 100% Sounds-Write schools.
Phonics success for every school in your Trust.
Includes everything in Schools plan plus:
- Support for MAT Phonics Lead.
- Support for schools new to Sounds-Write with one of our Literacy Specialists.
The membership is available from 1st September 2025. You can sign up now and pay in advance by clicking the buttons above.
2nd June - 11th July Online course
We’re running one final online course for UK and EU participants from 2nd June – 11th July 2025.
Registrations close: 16th May 2025
Course code: HT020625O
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Individuals
Included in your membership:
- Printed manual with lesson scripts, diagnostic tests, planning guidance, and more.
- A customised Training Pathway suited to your role.
- Access to courses, training videos, and live webinars.
- Progress Checks for tracking student performance.
- Resource generator to instantly create word lists, dictation sentences, and worksheets.
- Customisable interactive whiteboard tools for phonics sessions.
- Access to hundreds of decodable texts.
- No need for costly additional resources.
Schools
Included in your membership:
- Training and Professional Development for your whole team.
- Various Training Pathways for tailored learning experiences suited to different roles in your school.
- Monitor your team’s progress through their Training Pathways.
- Access to courses, training videos, and live webinars.
- Progress Checks for tracking student performance.
- Resource generator to instantly create word lists, dictation sentences, and worksheets.
- Customisable interactive whiteboard tools for phonics sessions.
- Access to hundreds of decodable texts.
- No need for costly additional resources.
- Eligibility to join our School Accreditation program to showcase excellence in phonics teaching.
- Resources to support parents and carers with their children’s phonics journey.
MATs
Included in your membership:
- All benefits included in the Schools membership plan.
- Support for MAT Phonics Lead.
- Support for schools new to Sounds-Write from a Literacy Specialist.
- Get in touch to find out how we can support your phonics journey.
Individuals
Included in your membership:
- Printed manual with lesson scripts, diagnostic tests, planning guidance, and more.
- A customised Training Pathway suited to your role.
- Access to courses, training videos, and live webinars.
- Progress Checks for tracking student performance.
- Resource generator to instantly create word lists, dictation sentences, and worksheets.
- Customisable interactive whiteboard tools for phonics sessions.
- Access to hundreds of decodable texts.
- No need for costly additional resources.
Schools
Included in your membership:
- Training and Professional Development for your whole team.
- Various Training Pathways for tailored learning experiences suited to different roles in your school.
- Monitor your team’s progress through their Training Pathways.
- Access to courses, training videos, and live webinars.
- Progress Checks for tracking student performance.
- Resource generator to instantly create word lists, dictation sentences, and worksheets.
- Customisable interactive whiteboard tools for phonics sessions.
- Access to hundreds of decodable texts.
- No need for costly additional resources.
- Eligibility to join our School Accreditation program to showcase excellence in phonics teaching.
- Resources to support parents and carers with their children’s phonics journey.
MATs
Included in your membership:
- All benefits included in the Schools membership plan.
- Support for MAT Phonics Lead.
- Support for schools new to Sounds-Write from a Literacy Specialist.
- Get in touch to find out how we can support your phonics journey.
Like what you've heard so far?
20+ years of evidence-based instruction
Sounds-Write has been written by teachers for teachers. For the last twenty years, we’ve been delivering our high-quality training program to thousands of education professionals to prepare them to teach all children to read and write in the most efficient and effective way.
The program draws on decades of research on the Science of Reading and Learning and combines this with practical teaching techniques that have been thoroughly tried and tested.
Developing a community of expert educators
At Sounds-Write, we believe that every child deserves the gift of literacy—and it starts with exceptional teaching. That’s why we focus first and foremost on developing teacher knowledge.
Grounded in well-established theories of learning and teaching, Sounds-Write equips educators with the expertise and confidence needed to shape a generation’s future—driven by the latest innovations in teaching and child development.
Building strong readers from the start
With 16 tried-and-tested lesson scripts, our program provides a structured and effective approach to teaching literacy. Sounds-Write has been successfully used in whole-class instruction, targeted interventions, and home-school and secondary school settings.
The carefully sequenced, cumulative curriculum takes students from their first steps in reading all the way to confidently reading complex polysyllabic words. With a speech-to-print orientation, Sounds-Write establishes a solid foundation for lifelong literacy.
Have questions before you dive in?
Q&As
What is the new Sounds-Write annual membership, and when does it start?
We’re thrilled to introduce the annual Sounds-Write membership, available from the 1st September 2025.
Our new membership is designed to give your school—and every member of your team—comprehensive access to Sounds-Write’s training. With the online training pathways for each staff member, Leading Phonics Masterclass, and Interventions Masterclass all included, it’s a convenient and cost-effective way to ensure everyone receives the training they need.
Once you’ve joined, you’ll get instant access to our new training pathways (from the 1st September 2025 onwards), so staff can begin learning right away. The training is completely asynchronous, so staff can work through it at their own pace, fitting it around their existing schedules.
We also offer membership to individuals who only need single-user access.
Can we sign up for the membership before September?
Yes, you can sign up for the annual Sounds-Write membership before September! By doing so, you'll be ready to hit the ground running when the membership officially launches on 1st September 2025. Early sign-ups ensure you’ll have everything in place to start accessing the training pathways as soon as they become available.
We're also offering all existing Sounds-Write schools who become members before 31st of May, one free place on the Leading Phonics Masterclass, starting on the 9th June.
Your membership will automatically renew in September 2026, even if you sign up between March 2025 - August 2025.
Who can access the membership?
The membership is available to all schools in the UK, Europe, and international schools that follow an English curriculum.
How is the membership priced?
The school membership follows a price-per-school model, ensuring that entire school teams can benefit, regardless of challenges like staff turnover or job shares. For individuals, there’s also the option to join Sounds-Write and gain single-user access.
Memberships must be renewed annually to maintain access to the Sounds-Write programme, but don’t worry—we’ll send you a friendly reminder when it’s time to renew.
What are the new training pathways?
Training pathways are curated course collections tailored to specific teaching roles, such as classroom teachers, teaching assistants, interventionists, phonics leads, and senior leaders. They provide personalised training to meet individual role requirements.
The Phonics Lead receives comprehensive training to implement Sounds-Write effectively and monitor team progress. This ensures tailored support and fidelity in programme delivery.
What professional development and further support can Sounds-Write provide once I've trained?
As well as providing coaching sessions upon request, Sounds-Write has a number of ways that we support practitioners. Our Facebook groups are a great place to ask questions and discuss topics you might need help with. We run a year-round webinar series for practitioners to gain insight into specific areas of teaching phonics, such as planning, fidelity and intervention.
Schools new to Sounds-Write will be assigned to a Sounds-Write Literacy Specialist who will provide additional support to them in the first year.
Are there any additional costs?
Other than the price of the membership there are no mandatory additional costs. You may wish to purchase additional decodable readers and other resources from our online shop.