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!

Bonding Speech Sounds, Spelling and Meaning
Download, print and laminate Tab 1 words !


🚀 Exciting News! 🚀
The Monster Spelling Piano® app has been submitted and being considered for use across schools in England for its positive impact on:
✅ Reducing teacher and administrative workload
✅ Improving pupil learning outcomes
✅ Increasing inclusion for children with SEND
It’s also now being used in dyslexia screening before children start learning phonics, helping to check sound processing skills early.
Since first launching in Australia as the Spelling Piano app, there have been 20K+ downloads and countless wonderful testimonials. Teachers told us how much it helped children pass the Phonics Screening Check, and how it transformed learning for children who didn’t enjoy worksheet-style lessons but loved the interactive iPad approach.
The app includes all Letters and Sounds grapheme–phoneme correspondences (GPCs), with children not only building words but also writing them on screen and checking correct spelling. This strengthens the three essentials needed to store words in the orthographic lexicon: speech sounds, spelling, and meaning.
✨ The app has now been rebuilt and relaunched as Monster Spelling Piano®, with even more features. Children can now master over 100 high-frequency words like many, where letters represent different sounds than in the phonics tabs. This is Speech Sound Mapping Theory in action.
🎹 Get the Monster Spelling Piano® app today to master the core phonics code and over 100 high-frequency words!
💷 One-time price: £14.95
📲 Download on iPad (Apple):
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/monster-spelling-piano/id6717616998
📲 Download on Android (Google Play):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edcode.msp
🏫 Schools: 50% discount available via Apple School Manager (for 20+ orders).
