High-Quality Phonics Training for Every Educator
The Sounds-Write Membership includes comprehensive phonics training designed to support every role in your school. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, teaching assistant, phonics lead or senior leader, our flexible, online training ensures every member of staff receives the professional development they need to deliver effective phonics instruction.
Annual membership prices starting from £400
Phonics training tailored to each member of your team
Our training pathways provide structured, role-specific phonics training for every member of your school team. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, teaching assistant, intervention specialist, phonics lead, or senior leader, each pathway is carefully designed to build the knowledge and skills needed for your role. With step-by-step guidance, flexible online access, and clearly defined learning goals, the training pathways ensure consistent, high-quality phonics instruction across the whole school.
Why choose the Sounds-Write membership
Validated systematic synthetic phonics programme
Department for Education (England)
Trusted by thousands of educators around the world
96% would recommend our phonics training
Data from our March 2025 online course.
What does the training cover?
- Learn how to teach the skills, concepts, and code knowledge students need to master in order to become competent readers, writers, and spellers.
- Discover how to introduce them to the Initial Code in the first year of school, moving from CVC words to words with a progressively more complex structure, and then transitioning to learning the Extended Code, alongside polysyllabic words in Y1.
- Learn how to teach all the different Sounds-Write lessons (or activity types), and have ample opportunity to practice them yourself.
- Find out how to teach Sounds-Write to groups of different sizes, so you can work with the whole class, small intervention groups, or one-to-one.
- Learn how to teach through errors—one of the cornerstones of the Sounds-Write approach—and how to conduct formative assessment and use differentiation as an integral part of your teaching.
- Understand how to use diagnostic tools to determine where new students should start the programme.
Ready to make phonics training easier for everyone?
Join the membership and give every staff member access to expert phonics training.
Evidence-based phonics training, delivered online
Our training is grounded in decades of research and built around the Sounds-Write approach—an evidence-informed, structured synthetic phonics programme used successfully in schools across the UK and beyond. All training is delivered through our easy-to-use online platform, making it simple for staff to access courses anytime, anywhere.
Annual membership prices starting from £400
Unlocking teacher potential
At Sounds-Write, we believe that teachers are the true catalysts for change in every child’s literacy journey. The most powerful tool in a classroom isn’t just the curriculum—it’s a teacher’s deep understanding of how phonics works and how to make it come alive for their students. By equipping teachers with expert-level knowledge and the confidence to apply it, we empower them to create a profound impact on literacy outcomes.
When teachers are truly skilled in phonics, they become the guiding force that shapes each child’s success in reading and writing. This is why we place such emphasis on teacher training—because we know that the quality of instruction is the most significant factor in improving literacy skills.
Crafted by teachers, backed by research
At Sounds-Write, our program has been crafted by teachers, for teachers, drawing on over two decades of experience and expertise in the classroom. For the last twenty years, we’ve delivered high-quality phonics training to thousands of educators, empowering them to teach every child to read and write in the most effective and efficient way possible.
Rooted in the latest research on the Science of Reading and learning theories, our approach blends cutting-edge cognitive insights with proven, practical teaching techniques that have been rigorously tested in real classroom settings. This unique combination ensures that teachers are equipped not only with the knowledge of how reading works, but with the tools to help every student succeed.