Use the SSP Speech Sound Play Plan before teaching any phonics programme, not just the Speech Sound Pics Approach, to screen for dyslexia risk by assessing phonemic awareness and phonological working memory. We are identifying the 1 in 4 children at risk of struggling to learn phonics before phonics instruction begins.
IPA-aligned Phonemies are Speech Sound Monsters®. They show children the speech sound value of letters. Letters are pictures of speech sounds (Speech Sound Pics®), making word mapping visual, linguistic, and fun. Preventing the dyslexia pardox!
Free Mapped Sight Words: Show the Orthographic Code
By bonding speech sounds, spelling, and meaning, we secure words in the orthographic lexicon (the brain’s word bank). This process facilitates orthographic mapping, allowing reading without the need to decode each word laboriously. With strong phonemic awareness (the goal of the 10-day Speech Sound Play plan), it can take only one or two exposures to store words for instant recognition (on sight) and to enable children to recognise when words are spelt incorrectly and do not ‘look right’.
Use the file to create these mapped sight word cards. Use with the Monster Spelling Piano app
Miss Emma creates 'how to' videos for teachers and children.
Also learn to map words with the Word Mapping Mastery handbook.
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By linking the speech sounds (with Phonemies), the spelling (the letters), and the meaning, children quickly recognise words by sight and know when they don't look right when writing the words. These high frequence words are important.
They are exposed to lots of hight frequency words within the One, Two, Three and Away! series.
Start the 36 Mapped Pre-Readers when children have moved to the SSP Yellow Code Level.