We’re here to empower education professionals to do one of the most important jobs – teach children to read and write
Written by teachers and for teachers, our approach has been giving educators the tools to instruct in reading and spelling with efficacy for over 20 years
Approved by the Colorado Department of Education under the guidelines of the READ Act mandate
Practiced in over 10 countries around the world
Structured, linguistic phonics program based on the science of reading
Used by educators in 20 states across the United States and Canada
Flagship Practitioner Training
Our online phonics training class covers everything you need to apply the Sounds-Write approach in your classroom or teach phonics at home. Once you complete the flagship training program and pass the course, you’ll become a certified Sounds-Write Practitioner.
This six-week course is organized multiple times throughout the year and is delivered by a qualified Sounds-Write trainer. Every Sounds-Write trainer has years of phonics instruction under their belts, with backgrounds ranging from classroom teachers to speech pathologists and language experts.
Covered in the online course:
- Learn how to teach the phonemic awareness skills, concepts, and code knowledge students need to master in order to become competent readers, writers, and spellers
- Learn how to teach all the different Sounds-Write phonic activities, 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 phonics 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 program
Phonics Training Packages
We offer packages for schools, districts and individuals. Find out more about the support we offer our trained practitioners.
When your school or district books a training package you’ll receive:
- $100 USD or $120 CAD Sounds-Write book voucher
- The Sounds-Write First Steps Collection e-books
- An online phonics training resource for parents and carers
- A free place on the Sounds-Write Revisited worth $120 USD p.p. $165 CAD p.p.
- A free place on the Sounds-Write Practitioners’ Online Course for your school’s administrator
- A certificate upon successful completion of the course
“What sets Sounds-Write apart is the teacher training element, you are trained and you are trained well, and then
you can do Sounds-Write with sticky notes or magnets, with really very little additional financial input. ”
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Ongoing Support for Trained Practitioners
We’re committed to supporting our trained practitioners ongoing Professional Development (PD). Here are some of the ways we keep you up to date with the latest innovations in teaching and child development after you’ve completed the online classes.
Free teaching resources
We regularly publish free teaching resources for teachers exclusively for Sounds-Write trained practitioners. Get school classroom ideas from Kindergarten through to elementary school and phonics printables directly to your inbox by joining the Sounds-Write community. You’ll also get access to a Facebook group with fellow Sounds-Write practitioners and free webinars to support your practice.
The Sounds-Write Practitioners’ Portal
When you train with us, you’ll gain free lifetime access to our Practitioners’ Portal. This online platform is the go-to place for teaching resources, activities, and PD once you’ve completed your training. Access free technology tools for the classroom including a resource generator for interactive whiteboard activities, phonics word lists, dictation sentences, and more. Get support with your phonics lesson plans with printable PDF activities which all match the Sounds-Write lesson plans.
The Sounds-Write Phonics App
Get access to a free sample of learning phonics games with the Sounds-Write Initial Code app. The interactive activities help children develop skills in segmenting and blending sounds, word reading and writing, and sentence reading and writing.
Available on the iPad App for OS12 or later.
“We have had three other local school districts and a school from out of state visit our Sounds-Write classrooms, and have walked away, equally as impressed. So our advice to other schools is, go visit a Sounds-Write classroom.”
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