The Phonics Screening Check 2025 (England): Our Analysis

The Phonics Screening Check 2025 (England): Our Analysis

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....
A Decline in Handwriting and Why It Matters

A Decline in Handwriting and Why It Matters

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...
The Importance of ‘Keep-Up’ Interventions

The Importance of ‘Keep-Up’ Interventions

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...
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