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Sounds~Write© is an exciting and highly successful approach to the teaching of reading, spelling and writing utilising a linguistic phonic approach. Sounds-Write has put together a selection of decodable readers and teaching resources to support the implementation of the Sounds-Write program. Sounds-Write has made available the first 7 units of the Sounds-Write program through this free "Help Your Child to Read and Write" course to help parents and carers support their children in developing reading and spelling skills.

Sounds Write Readers Initial Phonic Code

These decodable readers will enable children to practice the literacy skills they are learning through Sounds Write and help them gain fluency in reading, all while they enjoy the colourfully-illustrated stories. 

This 12-book set follows twelve different owners and their unique and quirky pets. The First Steps Basic Code Collection includes: Viv’s pig and hen –d, e, f, v Ken’s pet bug –k, l, r, u Jed’s pet rat –j, w, z Jess’s pet fox –x, y, ff, ll, ss Alf’s pet bat –vcc, cvcc Fran’s pet crab –ccvc Sam’s pet skunk –ccvcc, cvccc, cccvc Josh’s pet fish –/sh/ and other Unit 11 spellings Kim’s pet chimp –/ch/ and other Unit 11 spellings Meg’s pet moth –/th/ and other Unit 11 spellings Tim’s pet chick – for /k/ and other Unit 11 spellings Sal’s pet squid – for /k//w/ and other Unit 11 spellings

Sounds Write Readers Extended Code

Sounds Write books are written particularly to support phonic teaching through the Sounds Write program. Each of these titles focus on particular sounds to give children plenty of practice of the most common spelling alternatives presented in each of the Extended Code Units.

Set of 18 books: Unit 1: Ted Saves the Day Phoneme /ae/ Unit 2: The Fun Day Phoneme ‘ae’ Unit 2: A Secret at School Phoneme /ee/ Unit 3: Billy’s Easy Day Phoneme ‘ee’ Unit 4: Home Sweet Home Phoneme /oe/ Unit 5: The Golden Glow Phoneme ‘oe’ Unit 6: The Worst Day Phoneme ‘er’ Unit 6: A Turn on the Turf Phoneme /er/ Unit 7: Playing Dead with Ted Phoneme ‘e’ Unit 7: Guests at the Wedding Phoneme /e/ Unit 8: A Hound in Town Phoneme /ow/ Unit 8: The Greatest Show in Town Phoneme ‘ow’ Unit 10: The Rules at School Phoneme m ‘oo’n Unit 11: A Fine Time at Playgroup Phoneme ‘ie’ Unit 12: The Fright by the Brook Phoneme b ‘oo’ k Unit 14: The Sad Monkey Phoneme ‘u’ Unit 19: The Mystery of the Waterfall Phoneme ‘or’ Unit 20: The Scare on the Lake Phoneme ‘air’

Sounds Write Decodable Informational Texts: Fact File: Animal Series

These informational texts complement the teaching of a knowledge-based curriculum. They are suitable for students in year 1 onwards as well as for intervention settings. Children will develop their knowledge of animals – their lives, their diet and their habitats – as well as practising the skills and code knowledge they have been learning.

They readers start at the end of the Sounds-Write Initial Code with “Ants” and continue through the Extended Code to < oo > with “Wolves”.

Set of 10 books: • Ants (Initial Code) • Slugs and Snails /ae/ • Seals /ee/ • Crows /oe/ • Earthworms /er/ • Jellyfish /e/ • Owls /ow/ • Kangaroos /oo/ as in m/oo/n • Mice /ie/ • Wolves /oo/ as in b/oo/k.

Phonics Games and Activities

This photocopiable activity books are resources that can be used within schools or to compliment tutoring for Sounds~Write trained professionals.

This Sounds-Write photocopiable workbook for the Initial Code contains over 190 activities to practise word reading, word writing and sentence reading and writing; it also contains speed reading, memory games and word searches. The games and activities provide beginning readers with the opportunity to practise their reading and writing in fun and engaging ways. The activities can be used whole class, in small groups and in one-to-one settings, as well as for homework or home-schooling. Each activity has clear instructions so that teachers, teaching assistants, parents or carers know how to use them.

This Sounds Write photocopiable workbook for the Extended Code contains over 120 activities to practice word sorting, word tracking, and word reading and writing; it also contains speed reading and memory games and word searches. The games and activities provide beginning readers with the opportunity to practise their reading and writing in fun and engaging ways. The activities can be used whole class, in small groups and in one-to-one settings, as well as for homework or home schooling. Each activity has clear instructions so that teachers that teachers, teaching assistants, parents or carers know how to use them.

Sounds Write Activity Books

The Sounds-Write Activity Books can be used at home by parents and tutors to complement the first 14 units of the Sounds-Write program. These books can be used with the Sounds Write Udemy on-line course which is free for all parents or carers.

A broad range of activities to give your child the kind of practise that they need in order to learn to read and write. Each activity includes a simple instruction, so you and your child can work together to complete the task. This activity book covers Units 1-7 of the Initial Code.

A broad range of activities to give your child the kind of practise that they need in order to learn to read and write. Each activity includes a simple instruction, so you and your child can work together to complete the task. This is a second activity book in the series and covers Units 8-11 of the Initial Code.

Sounds Write - Interactive Whiteboard USB - Initial and Extended Code

This resource can be used within schools for whole class instruction or to compliment online tutoring for Sounds~Write trained professionals.

The interactive activities on this handy USB gives children an opportunity to move the sound tiles or words easily into place and model their responses. It is user friendly for both the teacher and children with the sequence of slides following the lessons and unit order of the Sounds~Write program for the entire Initial Code and for the first twenty-five units of the Extended Code.

There are word building activities with puzzles, sorting activities, find the spellings, sound reviews, opportunities to build ‘silly sentences’, as well as building and reading polysyllabic words. They give pupils practice in the skills of blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation: the skills identified as being key to proficient reading and spelling. They also rapidly develop pupils’ knowledge of the alphabet code as well as their understanding of how the writing system works in relation to the sounds of everyday language.

The 338 slides included on this software enables teachers to utilise the Sounds Write program in an efficient and effective way. From a teacher’s point of view having the wordlists and all the resources pre-prepared for each lesson and unit makes session preparation very quick and easy. It enhances lesson delivery and enables interactive pupil participation.

Requires  Smartboard software  to run. For use on a PC or Mac  SMARTNotebook software  will need to be loaded onto your computer prior to use. 

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Sounds-Write Activity Workbook: Extended Code

Sounds-Write photocopiable activity book:

Phonics games and activities for the Extended Code (Units 1-14, first spellings) by Tita Beaven & John Walker.

This Sounds-Write photocopiable workbook for the Extended Code contains over 120 activities to practise word sorting, word tracking, and word reading and writing; it also contains speed reading and memory games and word searches. The games and activities provide beginning readers with the opportunity to practise their reading and writing in fun and engaging ways. The activities can be used whole class, in small groups and in one-to-one settings, as well as for homework or home-schooling. Each activity has clear instructions so that teachers, teaching assistants, parents or carers know how to use them.

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Sounds-Write Phonic Games and Activities for the Extended Code

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Sounds-Write photocopiable activity book for the Extended Code, Units 1-14, first spellings.

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Authors: Tita Beaven & John Walker

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This Sounds-Write photocopiable workbook for Units 1-14 of the Extended Code contains over 120 activities to practise word sorting, word tracking, and word reading and writing; it also contains speed reading and memory games and word searches. The games and activities provide beginning readers with the opportunity to practise their reading and writing in fun and engaging ways.

The activities can be used whole class, in small groups and in one-to-one settings, as well as for homework or home-schooling. Each activity has clear instructions so that teachers, teaching assistants, parents or carers know how to use them.

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At Allambie Heights Public School, we teach phonics using a linguistic phonics program called Sounds-Write , an evidence-based program developed in the United Kingdom.

Sounds-Write is a very highly structured, multi-sensory, incremental and code-oriented, instructional approach to teaching children to read and spell. The Sounds-Write program is implemented in the classroom and provides very fast and effective teaching for children at all levels.

We are proud to be one of the few Sounds-Write Training Schools providing outstanding phonics teaching for training purposes as well as taster mornings, introducing the Sounds- Write program. This program is successful in teaching children to read and spell because it starts with what all children know from a very young age – the sounds of our spoken language. Then, using a very systematic approach, it teaches them how these sounds  are coded within our writing system.

Implementation:

Children at our school will be sure to tell you how much they enjoy their Sounds-Write lessons. Its structure and simplicity makes it a program accessible to all learners and helps them to make excellent progress with their reading and spelling.

Sounds-Write promotes the use of multi-sensory engagement with the materials appropriate to  the level and abilities of the children being taught. Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic activities  are at all times combined simultaneously to promote learning. Sounds-Write also enables teachers to differentiate the challenges placed before the learner in order to meet their individual needs.

The four key concepts children are taught are:

1.                letters are symbols that represent sounds

2.                sounds can be spelled using 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters

3.                the same sound can be spelled in different ways

4.                the same spelling can represent different sounds

The three key skills children need to master reading and spelling are:

1.                blending

2.                segmenting

3.                phoneme manipulation

Children in Kindergarten begin with the Initial Code where they practice all 3 key skills whilst learning the 1:1 sound-spelling correspondences and securing their understanding of key concept 1. This builds up confidence and phonic knowledge in a truly reversible system, enabling them to decode and encode a wide range of words and sentences. At first, children  learn to read and write simple one syllable words with a CVC structure. Complexity of word structure systematically builds up so that children apply their code knowledge to monosyllabic words with up to 6 sounds.

Once the Initial Code has been mastered, children continue to practice all 3 key skills whilst learning Extended Code which explores key concepts 2, 3 and 4. Learning of the Extended Code is a lifelong process – we all continue to develop our understanding of this code whenever we encounter new words. Which is why Sounds-Write can be applied across all grades in our school. Whilst learning the Extended Code, children read and write monosyllabic and polysyllabic words at an age-appropriate level.

Our K-6 learning and support program focusses on small group support for children who require additional consolidation of the classroom program so that all learners can reach their reading and spelling potential.

The following resources provide additional information for our parents and carers about the Sounds-Write program:

·         Sounds-Write website

·         Sounds-Write – Help your child to read and write with John Walker (Initial Code Unit 1 to Unit 7)

·          Sounds-Write – Help your child to read and write – part 2 with John Walker (Initial Code Unit 8 to Unit 11)

·         Pronunciation of Initial Code sounds

The following video demonstrates the teaching of Sounds-Write in our classrooms and support programs:

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Teaching Polysyllabic words

Teaching Polysyllabic Words

A sounds-write webinar with naomi hinton and john walker, we hope this webinar for sounds-write-trained teachers in y1-6,has helped you to refresh and hone your skills on how to teach polysyllabic words., here are a few resources that we think you'll find useful, sounds-write timeline: when to start teaching polysyllabic words:.

Here’s a document by John Walker about how to teach polys yl labic words.

The lessons:, as naomi pointed out, if you have not taught polysyllabic words for a while (or at all since your training), you should revisit the lesson scripts in your manual., to get you started, here's a video of sounds-write trainer charlotte mckechnie demonstrating lesson 11. go to your manual, locate the script for lesson 11 and follow it as you watch charlotte..

Phonics or morphology?

In this video form our y3-6 course, john discusses how to teach the word 'autobiographical' and whether you should be guided by morphology or by how to syllabify it..

You might also be interested in this blogpost, where John deals with whether we should be teaching phonics of morphology when we start teaching children to read and write:

We hope you enjoyed the webinar and that these resources are helpful.

The videos are from our sounds-write in y3-6 online course., the sounds-write in y3-6 course is designed for teachers and other educational practitioners who have already trained in sounds-write and want to hone their skills and knowledge in teaching sounds-write in ks2., the next course starts on 13 march, and registrations close on 6th march..

Find out more about the Sounds-Write in Y3-6 course

Have you trained in Sounds-Write but wonder how to make the most of it in years 3 to 6?

Are you wondering how sounds-write links up with current debates around teaching vocabulary and a knowledge curriculum, do you want to review your practice of teaching polysyllabic words.

Sounds-Write Training For education professionals  by SOUND LITERACY   Maureen McDaniell, Helen Hampton

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Sounds-Write is endorsed by the Department of Education in   Western Australia.  " The Department reviewed this high-quality structured synthetic phonics program which has been quality-assured and formally endorsed. This process examined all aspects of the program with a clear criterion, examining professional learning, scope and sequences, lesson design, resources, assessment and types of instruction.

MAUREEN McDANIELL  B.Ed.

Maureen is a registered teacher who was concerned at the declining literacy standards in schools. In 2011 she decided to specialise in teaching foundation literacy with an intervention program that would provide primary school students with their best prospects for success. The program is Sounds - Write, which had been created as a mainstream tool for whole classroom teaching but worked seamlessly as an intervention method.

As a graduate from the first Sounds-Write training with John Walker in Western Australia in 2013 Maureen rapidly found she was in demand and now, online training has increased that demand.

As an experienced practitioner and trainer, Maureen brings to her Sounds - Write training a practical, in-depth understanding of the challenges facing teachers and parents in delivering effective literacy programs in schools and at home. 

CONTACT MAUREEN

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HELEN HAMPTON

Helen is a Specialist literacy tutor and Sounds-Write trainer. Her interest in literacy and linguistic phonics stemmed from working with her severely dyslexic daughter fifteen years ago.  

In 2011, realising the lack of local specialist literacy support for families in similar circumstances, she set up a tutoring service to support primary and secondary students struggling to acquire literacy skills. Since completing her training with John Walker in Perth 2013, she has been using Sounds-Write in her practice to successfully tutor individual students on a weekly basis.  

Based in Margaret River, Helen delivers Sounds-Write courses across the South West region of Western Australia and other remote regional areas. She also provides post-training coaching to schools and other education professionals.

CONTACT HELEN

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0428 006 833

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Sounds-Write Workbook for the Initial Code

Sounds-Write photocopiable activity book: Phonics games and activities for the Initial Code by Tita Beaven and John Walker This Sounds-Write photocopiable workbook for the Initial Code contains over 190 activities to practise word reading, word writing and sentence reading and writing; it also contains speed reading, memory games and word searches. The games and activities provide beginning readers with the opportunity to practise their reading and writing in fun and engaging ways. The activities can be used whole class, in small groups and in one-to-one settings, as well as for homework or home-schooling. Each activity has clear instructions so that teachers, teaching assistants, parents or carers know how to use them.

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What is Sounds-Write?

If you have heard your speech pathologist talking about the term Sounds-Write, you may be wondering what it is and how it will help. 

Sounds Write is a phonics program developed to support children with learning the literacy skills involved in reading and writing. 

The program takes a stepped approach and focusses on ensuring that the foundations of literacy skills are taught well first before progressing into longer words or different word structures. 

The initial steps involve learning the correspondence between letter names/formation and the sounds made by the letters. Throughout the program, the focus remains on learning the SOUNDS that letters make and not learning the names of the letters.  The program progresses through spelling and reading consonant-vowel-consonant words (e.g., sit) to words containing consonant clusters (e.g., scr ap) and ultimately to words containing vowel diagraphs (when two vowel letters together create one vowel sound, e.g., coin). 

Some of the activities involved in teaching the sounds write program include: 

• Word building – this involves arranging letter tiles into words, which helps to support children who may be having difficulties with the motor skills involved in writing
• Sound swap – this involves changing words that have been built during the word building activity into other words (e.g., sit → hit → him). Doing this helps to develop flexibility and the skills involved with manipulating sounds in words.  
• Word spelling – this involves spelling words from the relevant word lists with the key prompt being “say the sounds and write the word”
• Word reading – this involves reading words from the relevant word list. Again the focus remains on segmenting the words into the individual letter sounds (e.g., Sam → ssss aaa mmm)
• Writing to dictation – writing a sentence presented verbally by the speech pathologist

Some of the pros of the Sounds Write Program include the fact that: 

• It follows an errorless learning approach – this means that the program will be as supportive as the child needs and teach through getting answers correct rather than through making mistakes. This can be critical for children learning literacy as we know that confidence (or lack of) can make a huge difference in a child’s receptiveness to learning
• It is highly structured, meaning that skills are not missed and that all critical literacy foundations are taught. This is essential as speech pathologists frequently assess children who have been learning later literacy skills at school but who are lacking the early skills required to form high quality literacy knowledge.
• It has homework packages that can be provided to you so that you can support your child’s literacy skill learning between sessions. 

If you are interested in learning more about the Sounds Write Program or any other speech pathology interventions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at Hanrahan Health via our website, by sending us email at [email protected] or giving us a call on (02) 4862 5063 .

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