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!
We can make "Sounding it Out" easier!
We already have the unique word-mapping algorithm that shows which letters belong together, and Phonemies to show each sound value. The Innovate UK Funded MyWordz® technology already provides everything children need to map words, which is the process phonics aims to teach. The coding needed is largely in place. But what about a new handheld word scanner: The Word Mapper? A Word Mapper - or Word Scanner! - designed for children like Rex who may be at risk of dyslexia, especially when there is a family history?
Let us know what you think!
Miss Emma
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This clip shows Stacey being her usual wonderful self with Rex, fitting in hearing him read his home reader while getting her hair and make-up done.
When Rex sounds out buh… yuh… for the word 'by', Stacey gently replies, “Buh yuh spells by,” and agrees that it doesn’t make sense, it's just how it is. Buh yuh always spells by.
He then tells her that he always gets it wrong at school, and she reassures him: “That’s not wrong. It’s just your learning. There’s no such thing as getting it wrong.”
But is it a plausible pronunication? We do not say buh yuh, and this is why Joe found it hard too. With different 'Speech Sound Pics) support it always makes sense!
She is doing everything she can to help, making sure he does not feel bad that reading is hard. It is not his fault; the teaching is not meeting his needs, and his mum is doing her best without clear guidance around connecting letters and sounds.
And we rarely get to watch parents listening to their child read at home. I watched this and thought Rex would love a hand-held'word scanner!' The Word Mapper.