24 episodes
The Sounds-Write Podcast Sounds-Write
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The Sounds-Write Podcast is aimed at practitioners using phonics to teach children to read and write. The host hears from experts in the field of phonics in order to answer your questions. Sounds-Write is an expertly structured synthetic phonics programme based on the science of reading. For 20 years, we’ve been delivering a high-quality development programme which empowers education professionals to impart on children those most critical abilities for a happy, successful life and career: excellent reading and writing skills.
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Episode 21: Phonics Interventions for High School Success with Ilona Sydney-Jones
In the twenty-first episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Ilona Sydney-Jones discusses the ins and outs of using Sounds-Write with high school students, the importance of supporting older learners with literacy and the specific adaptations she makes when using Sounds-Write with these learners. Enjoy!
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SPELDSA
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Base Camp article by John Walker
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Episode 20: Polysyllabic Words with Caroline Hardisty
In the twentieth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Caroline Hardisty is back to give plenty of helpful and practical advice for teaching polysyllabic words. Caroline discusses the rationale behind why we introduce polysyllabic words from simple to complex and in an explicit way, how to syllabify words, and how to implement differentiation techniques with polysyllabic word lessons. Enjoy!
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Episode 19: Advice for Phonics Leads with Donna Smith
In the nineteenth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Donna Smith is back to give plenty of helpful and practical advice for Phonics Leads. This episode comes in celebration of the recent release of our Phonics Lead Handbook, a brilliant (and free!) resource that will be any Phonics Lead's guide to all things Sounds-Write. Enjoy!
Some helpful links:
Access the Phonics Lead Handbook and many more useful documents
Alex saying the sounds Sounds-Write Initial Code
Episode 3: Phonics With Fidelity with Naomi Hinton
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Episode 18: Phonics in Small, Rural Schools with Helen Hampton
In the eighteenth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Helen Hampton talks about implementing Sounds-Write in small, rural schools. She discusses how to get started with Sounds-Write in this setting, how to maximise your resources and how to teach phonics to mixed-age classes. Enjoy!
Some helpful links:
Sounds-Write's Free Resources
Sounds-Write's Australian Shop
Train with Helen
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Episode 17: Language Development with Alex Bedford and Julie Sherrington
In the seventeenth episode of The Sounds-Write Podcast, Alex Bedford and Julie Sherrington talk about their recently released book 'EYFS: Language of Learning'. Alex and Julie are both experienced and passionate educators. They discuss the importance of language development, the impact of the pandemic on children's language and how to put their brilliant handbook into practice. Enjoy!
"This book will be the go-to resource for practitioners who want a clear, user-friendly way to develop children's language in the EYFS setting. Inspired by Joan Tough's language development framework, it offers educators a way to understand, plan and sequence high-quality conversations to help develop shared thinking, communication and language. We love the clarity of the writing and the illustrations, and the worked examples bring the approach to life. We can't wait to go into schools that use this approach and see the children thrive!" ― John Walker and Tita Beaven, Sounds-Write
Some helpful links:
EYFS: Language of Learning – a handbook to provoke, provide and evaluate language development
Alex's upcoming events and workshops
The Reading Together Collection
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3: Nuggets of Language Nerdiness
Welcome to episode 3 of Nuggets of Language Nerdiness by The Sounds-Write Podcast! Do you know the difference between a language, a pidgin and a creole? What would a writing system look like if it could convey tone of voice and stress? What are false cognates? Join us as we explore these questions and more in this episode. Enjoy!
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What is a language
What’s The Difference Between A Pidgin And A Creole?
Pidgin's etymology
History of Jamaican Patwa
Jamaican Patois and the Power of Language in Reggae Music
How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language
Pidgins and Creoles
BBC News Pidgin
Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It by Mark Seidenberg
False cognates
Customer Reviews
Good on you
I’m am so pleased to see this podcast starting up. I know it will be excellent and I am looking forward to the next episode. Thank you.
We don’t know what we don’t know
We have just begun our SW journey- committing time and money to training ALL staff in this program. I am so grateful that FP and PM are not science based. In teaching practicums and I’m working at a classroom teacher and even a literacy intervention teacher, I was using PM and FP. I felt like a fool trying to guess MSV. So subjective and inconclusive. Also keen to comment that you don’t know what you don’t know. I was part of a team implementing sound waves across the NT back in 2012 and 2013. Then taking that to a new school in 2014 in Victoria. I thought it was good and it seemed effective. But now knowing better it’s time to move on. I’m sure this is a common narrative for teachers- we don’t know what we don’t know.