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Decodable Readers vs Levelled Readers: Building Stronger Foundations for Early Literacy

When choosing resources to support early reading, educators often face a key decision: decodable readers vs levelled readers. While both offer...

Inspired by the 2025 Sounds-Write Symposium presentation by Jacqui Edwards and Di Van der WaltIntroduction Students with complex profiles of...

The newly-published Writing Framework (2025) and the Reading Framework (2023) together offer schools a clear, research-informed direction: secure...

In nursery settings, practitioners do much more than help children socialise and play—they lay the crucial foundations for their future reading...

In this post, Sounds-Write's Founder and CEO John Walker examines the structure of the Phonics Screening Check 2025, highlights patterns and...

This blog post was inspired by Professor Joe Elliott’s keynote: “Rethinking Dyslexia: From Diagnostic Labels to Evidence-Based Reading Support” at...

Susan joined the Sounds-Write program after choosing to homeschool her two young children. In this blog, she shares her successes, challenges, and...

We’re excited to share a major development at Sounds-Write—our brand-new annual membership, launching in September 2025. The membership will be...

I’ve been a Speech Pathologist for 16 years and opened my private practice about 8 years ago. I have always had a passion for teaching children to...

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...