by Jacinda Vaughan | Aug 2, 2025 | Australia, Blog, UK, USA
The Sounds-Write Progress Checks are carefully designed to align closely with your daily phonics instruction. Far from being just another test, these checks are devised to feel like a natural extension of your Sounds-Write lessons, putting teaching and meaningful data...
by Tita Beaven | Jul 29, 2025 | Blog, Interventions, SEND, Symposium
At this year’s Sounds-Write Symposium, Mandy Nayton, CEO of DSF in Western Australia, delivered a keynote that brought clarity to a question many educators grapple with: What’s the difference between MTSS and RtI—and does it really matter? Spoiler alert: Yes, it does....
by Tita Beaven | Jul 28, 2025 | Blog, Decodable Readers, News
When choosing resources to support early reading, educators often face a key decision: decodable readers vs levelled readers. While both offer structured experiences for beginning readers, the path they build toward literacy is vastly different. In this blog, we’ll...
by Tita Beaven | Jul 10, 2025 | Blog, Primary Education, Secondary School, UK
The newly-published Writing Framework (2025) and the Reading Framework (2023) together offer schools a clear, research-informed direction: secure the foundations of reading and writing early, and build on them progressively throughout primary education. They emphasise...
by admin | Jun 25, 2025 | Blog, PSC
In this post, Sounds-Write’s Founder and CEO John Walker examines the structure of the Phonics Screening Check 2025, highlights patterns and potential points of confusion, and offers guidance on how teachers can use this insight to better support early readers....
by Tita Beaven | Jun 25, 2025 | Blog, Interventions, News, SEND
This blog post was inspired by Professor Joe Elliott’s keynote: “Rethinking Dyslexia: From Diagnostic Labels to Evidence-Based Reading Support” at the Sounds-Write Symposium 2025. His thought-provoking presentation challenged many of the assumptions we often make...
