Exciting news! In the UK The Reading Hut is launching Braintree Forest Learning, to take the I Can Read Without You (ICRWY) project outside! Let's explore the 'speech sound pics' in words within outdoor playgroups. Wherever you are in the world you will be able to follow the children as we grapheme 'code map' and explore 'words in the woods'! Watch this space for more details! Add the ICRWY Braintree Forest Learning Approach to your early years setting. 
It's a 'less teaching, more learning' play-centred approach - not an 'instruction heavy' program. Explicit instruction facilitates the implicit, independent learning we all love so much, as does differentiation. 
Our new ICRWY pilot for 2 to 3-year-olds launches soon - a focus on speech, language & communication skills. Shaping brains to more easily explore and understand written language. An early dyslexia intervention with Braintree Forest Learning; embracing neurodiversity. 

Use the ICRWY 30-minute-a-day- routine to ensure mastery of constrained skills as quickly and easily as possible - ideally before the end of the reception year. 3 activities a day plus the new FRY 300 resources is all it takes!  Over 85% can pass the UK Phonics Screener Check within one academic year - and even quicker if parents do this at home! This means earlier independent reading for pleasure and better spelling.
Use the FREE ICRWY Braintree Forest decodable readers to practise blending the target graphemes and new high-frequency words!
 
We are even more committed to ensuring that those teaching reading and spelling understand how to more effectively meet the needs of neurodivergent learners eg those with dyslexia. Without an understanding of phonology and orthographic learning, teachers may miss out on identifying those most at risk of literacy difficulties and not be aware of how to adapt the phonics programme they are using, to provide children with early intervention as part of their KS1 in-class learning journey.  We'll discuss some of these issues (and how to overcome them) within the PATOSS  'best practice in the assessment and intervention of children with literacy disorders for primary and secondary age students series' 
Please do join us 
Improving Global Literacy with Miss Emma - Emma Hartnell-Baker MA SEN Doctoral Student (University of Reading, UK)      

SSP Training Videos- Self-Paced Training WITH Student Phonics and HFW Lessons are now available in the school app for ipads or opt for a basic version and access on PCs. 

90 Minute Zoom Training in Grapheme Code Mapping with the new Code Mapping Tool, and Spelling Clouds, can be booked with or without the Speech Sound Monsters! Please note that the Speech Sound Monsters help students of any age understand the IPA more easily. 

This training will help adults supporting middle to upper school grade students understand why so many children struggle to read and spell, and what to do about it. The 'what' is unique! You will understand why Miss Emma's techniques such as 'Duck Hands, Lines and Numbers' and 'Speedy Paired Code Mapping' are so powerful.  
After this training go on to LinguaLit - a 45-minute all-on-one literacy routine with a focus on decoding fluency, vocab and comprehension skills. Students will quickly improve their self-editing and spelling skills. Again, you only need the Code Mapping Tool and Spelling Clouds. 

Without Speech Sound Monsters

With Speech Sound Monsters!

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Parents and Tutors can now use the Code Mapping Tool in the ICRWY Lessons app!
Grapheme Code Mapping Tool transcribes words to show the grapho-phonemic structure of the words.  

Google Play (Android)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.icanreadwithoutyou

Apple 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icrwy-lessons-i-can-read/id1617743018

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The only way to successfully learn to read in English is to know the 'speech sound' values of the letters. We call graphemes 'pictures of speech sounds' or 'Speech Sound Pics'.
Welcome to the home of the
Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach!
The SSP approach to teaching phonics systematically was launched in Australia in 2012.

The written code was created to represent speech sounds, not the other way around, so a 'Speech to Print' approach is taken. Phonics is essential for ALL readers, but students will struggle to learn phonics without good phonemic awareness.
We use our unique innovation patent design technique 'Code Mapping' to SHOW students how all words are segmented into sound units (graphemes).
This sentence is code mapped!  

We also use Sound Pictograph Mnemonics - Integrated (Embedded) Sound Pictographic Mnemonics (another way to focus on the Sound Pics®) Speech Sound Monster characters link only with speech sounds; the direct link to the sounds reduce cognitive load. 
We call this Monster Mapping ®

Even when children have good phonemic awareness and are taught 'phonics' they can struggle to know how to pronounce the graphemes they see in unfamiliar words. Many educators would use phonetic symbols, but these are less appealing to young children. Miss Emma, therefore, created 'Speech Sound Monsters' as an alternative, and to embed as Speech Sound Pictograph Mnemonics. She 'Code Maps' and 'Monster Maps' texts and books for them, so that they can actually read unfamiliar texts without any help, and reach the stage of 'orthographic mapping' far earlier! 
All but two English words are decodable (can be Code Mapped) and we show these in red.
When there are graphemes only used in that word, eg the /wo/ in the word two or the /ach/ in the word yacht, they are put on the outside of the Spelling Clouds. There are very few.
Children explore these using the SSP Speech Sound Wall and Spelling Clouds, along the journey to becoming 'orthographic mappers'

ICRWY Apps for 3 - 7 year olds.
Miss Emma teaches the lessons in the ICRWY Lessons app!

The Speech Sound Camera Monster
takes pictures of Speech Sounds and
records them in the Speech Sound Clouds for each Speech Sound Monster