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 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...
by Tita Beaven | May 8, 2025 | News, Uncategorized
We’re excited to share a major development at Sounds-Write—our brand-new annual membership, launching in September 2025. The membership will be available in the UK and the rest of Europe, and to any international schools following an English curriculum. “The...
by admin | Feb 18, 2025 | News
According to a National Literacy Trust survey, ‘more than a third of children rarely or never write by hand in their spare time’. Should we be surprised or worried by this? asked Jonny Diamond on BBC’s The World At One (6th December 2024) in conversation with Melissa...
by Jacinda Vaughan | Feb 18, 2025 | News, PSC
Whether you are at the start of the year, as our Australian colleagues are, or mid-year as our UK and US colleagues are, it is ALWAYS a good time to talk about the importance of ‘keep-up’ intervention. What are ‘keep-up’ interventions? Whilst at Sounds-Write we...
