by Tita Beaven | Sep 30, 2025 | Blog, UK, Uncategorized
Recently, a teacher asked us this question: “The new statutory framework for writing says children should not be taught writing on a whiteboard or on the carpet, but should be sitting at a table. A number of Sounds-Write lessons involve children writing words and even...
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 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 Caroline Hardisty | Jul 8, 2025 | Australia, Early years, Nursery, Pre K, UK, USA
Laying the Foundations for Reading Through a Speech-to-Print Approach In nursery settings, practitioners do much more than help children socialise and play—they lay the crucial foundations for their future reading success. One of the most important things early years...
by admin | Feb 1, 2025 | Case Study, Secondary School, UK
Allison Shaw worked as a primary school teacher for over 30 years before becoming a Higher Level Teaching Assistant at Cardinal Hume, an ‘Outstanding’ (Ofsted, 2024) secondary school in the northeast of England. A strong interest in reading and literacy, shared with...
by admin | Oct 1, 2024 | Case Study, Primary Education, UK
We talked to Katherine Murphy, phonics lead at Twynyrodyn Community School, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, a school that took the decision to teach systematic synthetic phonics to improve reading outcomes for their students. Why did you choose Sounds-Write? Reading...
