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.
Speech Sound Play Plan Training
The Speech Sound Play Plan is the pre-phonics speech-to-print lead-in to teaching children that the pictures of speech sounds are graphemes. We call these sound pictures Speech Sound Pics®.
The 10-Day Speech Sound Play plan is used in Reception before teaching phonics to screen for dyslexia risk and to support speech sound processing skills and awareness of how speech and print connect.
Use the Speech Sound Play Plan at any stage, however, and spend as much time as you need if you are not using it whole-class and rushing to teach the first set of graphemes because this is mandated by the education system.
Two-Hour Speech Sound Play Training: £120 for individuals, £1200 for early years centres and schools
To ensure that every child you support learns to read and spell with ease and joy, you will need to start with the Speech Sound Play Plan so that they understand phonics. Even if you don't teach them phonics, these activities get their brains ready to connect speech and print easily, and they overcome the high-risk factors many children start school with, regardless of how bright they are or how often you read to them. Speech Sound Play in the early years prevents the dyslexia paradox because children become less reliant on the quality of instruction when they start school. We are preparing their brains to be taught to read in any way their teachers teach them. The way reading and spelling is taught varies around the world, and at least one in four children is failed in every country at the moment. We can change that by using the Speech Sound Play Plan for upstream screening and support.
It naturally leads into Speedie Readies: Show the Code, the Dual Route towards Word Mapping Mastery and Orthographic Mapping.
We offer a two-hour training session dedicated to the Speech Sound Play Plan and a two-hour session for Speedie Readies.
Speedie Readies is delivered 1:1 by adults who do not need to be teachers.
You can use this to support at-risk children regardless of the phonics programme being used in class by the Reception or Year 1 teacher.
Those trained in Speech Sound Play AND the Speedie Readies system, will be fantastic teachers of reading and spelling!