The Sounds-Write Podcast

In the eight episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Sounds-Write's newest in-house trainer, Jacinda Vaughan, talks about literacy interventions. She discusses the difference between 'keep up' and 'catch-up' interventions and gives some really practical guidance for setting up intervention sessions for struggling readers. Enjoy!

Some helpful links:
Pre-register for the Sounds-Write Practitioners' Portal!
Sounds-Write's Facebook
Sounds-Write's Instagram
Sign up to our mailing list
Free Initial Code e-books
Free Extended Code e-books
Free course for parents and carers

In the seventh episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, John Walker talks about the past 20 years of Sounds-Write. He discusses some of the highs and lows and talks about the future of Sounds-Write. Enjoy!

Some helpful links:
Pre-register for the Sounds-Write Practitioners' Portal!
Sounds-Write's Facebook
Sounds-Write's Instagram
Sign up to our mailing list
What is Sounds-Write podcast episode
Pamela Snow and Tanya Terry's op-ed
Pamela Snow's blog
The Teaching Delusion book series

In the sixth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, trainer Caroline Hardisty gives advice for schools who are new to Sounds-Write. She gives tips for practitioners who are just starting out, and discusses some of the considerations when implementing Sounds-Write as a whole-school approach.  Enjoy!

Some helpful links:
Sounds-Write's Facebook
Sounds-Write's Instagram
Sign up to our mailing list
Learn more about teaching Sounds-Write with fidelity
Learn more about Sounds-Write

In the fifth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Alison Perry and John Walker discuss all-things speech pathology.  Alison talks about the intersection of her work as a speech therapist and as a Sounds-Write trainers. She talks about her passion for teaching and the joy of teaching children to read. Enjoy!

Some helpful links:
Alison's website
John's Twitter
John's blog
Learn more about Sounds-Write

In the fourth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, John Walker discusses the sound to print approach to teaching reading and writing. He talks about the rationale behind using this orientation, how this approach differs to print to sound methods and the results we’ve seen from schools using the sound to print approach. Listen to the end of the episode for an exciting sneak peak into one of our upcoming projects. Enjoy!

Some helpful links:
Our case studies book
John's Twitter
John's blog
Learn more about Sounds-Write

In the third episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Head of Training Naomi Hinton explains why teaching phonics with fidelity is important and how practitioners can ensure that they put this into practice. Naomi talks about differentiation, scripts, monitoring, interleaving and much more. Thanks for listening!

Some helpful links:
The DfE Reading Framework
Our free courses for parents and carers
John's blog post on teaching phonics whole class
Follow Naomi on Twitter

In the second episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, John Walker answers the question 'what is Sounds-Write?' He deep-dives into the theoretical underpinnings of the approach and discusses what differentiates Sounds-Write from other phonics schemes. We hope that this is helpful both to those of you who are new to Sounds-Write and also to practitioners who wish to refresh their understanding of the programme's core principles.

Some helpful links:
John teaching word building
The Sounds-Write showcase

In this very first episode of the Sounds-Write podcast, we hear John Walker answer questions about decodable readers. How should you begin using decodables? What are they for? How can you phase out the use of decodables? Hear answers to all this and more! Thank you for listening and see you next time.

Some links mentioned in this episode:
Our Initial Code free e-books
Our Extended Code free e-books
Our free courses for parents and carers
The Reading Ape's blog post 'The eyes have it'
More Sounds-Write links