"A warm welcome to our site featuring our ‘No Nonsense Phonics’ programme. Here you will find full information and FREE training PowerPoints and videos to support your use of the ‘No Nonsense Phonics Skills’ Pupil Books, parallel Teacher Books and additional core resources.
The additional resources include a series of ‘matched code’ ‘Phonics and Vocabulary Books’ that is, reading books - available as ‘hard copies’ and via an eBookshelf - to complement the ‘No Nonsense Phonics’ programme.
The ‘No Nonsense Phonics’ programme provides for mainstream initial teaching and for intervention (if required) - from age 4+ infant and primary. The ‘No Nonsense Phonics Skills Pupil Books’ have been used successfully for home-schooling, teaching English as an additional language, tutoring, and even for intervention in some secondary schools! See Debbie’s ‘Reviews/Literacy Blog’ for feedback and findings from a range of countries and contexts.
‘No Nonsense Phonics’ was validated as a full Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme by the Department for Education in England in July 2021 and, therefore, has qualified for government funding via the DfE English Hubs initiative for ‘partner schools’ selecting ‘No Nonsense Phonics’ as their core SSP phonics programme.
The ‘No Nonsense Phonics Skills Pupil Books’ include plain ‘matched texts’ for reading and writing/spelling purposes for every letter/s-sound correspondence of the English alphabetic code introduced throughout the programme. Additionally, the ‘Phonics and Vocabulary Books’ have been developed as a series of reading books to complement the ‘No Nonsense Phonics’ programme – see our shop ‘Buy Resources’. These reading books can be used to supplement the stock of literature for any school – regardless of their selected phonics programme – simply use ‘sensibly’ as required. Be sure to check out our additional 'Free Resources' in full.
For further information and any additional training requirements, please feel free to contact us.”
Programme author and consultant
Best wishes, Debbie
Debbie Hepplewhite and Carl Pattison introduce the No Nonsense Phonics programme - including the rationale and resources.
***Please note that whilst there are references to Raintree Publishing throughout this video, as of July 2022, Phonics International Limited is the publisher and sole distributor (from this website) of the No Nonsense Phonics resources.
Also note that any references to Wand Education or Wand Phonics in the video below should be disregarded. Phonics International has terminated its collaboration with Wand Education and the platform is no longer available through our websites.
This is a VERY full discussion describing Debbie's rationale for programme design.
“In February 2017, we introduced No Nonsense Phonics Skills as an intervention tool. The impact of the programme on the focus group we trialled was so dramatic that following the Y1 phonics check results in June 2017, we invited author Debbie Hepplewhite into school to work with us in September 2017. In 2018 our phonics check results were at 94%, having risen from 78% the previous year.”
Rachel Field, Headteacher, Ashfield Infant and Nursery School, Cumbria
Our phonics data (national in brackets)
Who is this site for?
All teachers (phonics should arguably be every teacher’s specialism in addition to any other specialism or interest), teacher-trainers, literacy and special needs advisors, tutors and parents or carers – indeed this site is for anyone involved in some way in teaching or supporting foundational literacy in the English language.
About Debbie Hepplewhite
Debbie Hepplewhite MBE FRSA is internationally renowned as a leading phonics teacher trainer/consultant and author.
Debbie campaigned extensively over many years to achieve national, evidence-based, systematic synthetic phonics teaching in primary schools. As a representative of the UK Reading Reform Foundation, she advised the British government for the parliamentary inquiry 'Teaching Children to Read' (March 2005) and she helped to inform Sir Jim Rose's 'Independent review of the teaching of early reading' (Final Report, Jim Rose, March 2006). A former teacher, headteacher and special needs teacher, she is known to be a controversial and inspirational speaker and has spoken alongside Sir Jim Rose at literacy conferences. Debbie has written many challenging articles for educational magazines and for many years she has provided practical advice for parents, teaching professionals, teacher-trainers, politicians, publishers and manufacturers. Debbie is a founding committee member of the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction (IFERI). In 2012, Debbie was awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List for services to education.
Debbie's DfE-validated Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programmes
