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...
by Naomi Hinton | Jan 24, 2025 | News, PSC
Whilst the timing of this blog was prompted by the start of the new academic year in Australia, the guidance will be useful to teachers using a Phonics Screening Check anywhere around the world. In fact, we shared a VERY similar post back in September for the start of...
by admin | Dec 20, 2024 | News, PSC
When considering the Phonics Screening Check and the code knowledge that needs to be learned, there can sometimes be an urgency to ‘get through’ the scope and sequence. The beauty of Sounds-Write is that the scope and sequence follow a cumulative nature, meaning you...
by admin | Nov 27, 2024 | News, PSC
The PSC (Phonics Screening Check) may seem some time away yet but, at Sounds-Write, we recommend that you review what your class has been doing so far to make plans for the months ahead. Let us guide you! In this blog, we’ll explain how you can use the tools we’ve...
by admin | Oct 23, 2024 | News
The PSC (Phonics Screening Check) is as much a test of phonemic awareness skills and conceptual understanding as it is of code knowledge. This blog will explore why it is so important that these skills are practised to automaticity and what you can do to ensure that...
