Topics
 

• What are Duck Hands? Why use Duck Hands®, Lines and Numbers?

• Why use Visual Prompts?

• What are ‘Speech Sound Pics®’? Why not just call them graphemes?

• Why use Phonemies (Speech Sound Monsters®) instead of embedding something like an apple on an /a/ or a snake on the /s/? What’s the difference between Speech Sound Monster Mapping® and phonics mnemonics?

• Why is the Blue Cow phonemie used at first rather than the Silly Schwa?

• What is the swallowed schwa, eg in the word kettle - but not in petal?

• Why are the words one and once in red?

• What about accents?

• What can I do if children can’t blend speech sounds (phonemes)?

• Why do you use letter and number formation phrases when children are learning to form letters and numbers?

• When do you start introducing upper-case letters?

• When do you use letter names?

• Why do you show the letters that combine as graphemes (Sound Pics®) in black and grey contrasting colours, and why not start at black for every word?

• Are there rules around how letters and sounds are mapped, when mapping words?

• Why is the word 'quit' mapped with four phonemes and four graphemes? 

• When do children stop needing to see the Phonemies when looking at words and readers?

• What does it mean if the child can’t remember the letter order or spelling of a word?

• Why isn’t the teacher teaching phonics in a Speech Sound Pics® (SSP) Approach classroom? Why are they watching the Core Code Level lesson on a screen and then demonstrating what they know using the Coding Poster?

• Why are there some Sound Pics® (graphemes) on the outside of the Spelling Clouds?

• Why is the Silly Schwa cloud empty at the beginning of the year?

• What are plausible pronunications?