Use the 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. Letters that function as graphemes in words are known as sound pictures, that is, Speech Sound Pics, and introduced early.
Checking Comprehension
As you move into systematic phonics instruction - if using the Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach following Speech Sound Play (SSP) - you will start to use Snap and Crack for comprehension, the Speedy Six Spelling activities, to explore the code not taught withn the Core Code. Rapid Writing for sentence construction, grammar and punctuation etc.
But even in the very beginning stages we need to get into the habit of knowing that the children UNDERSTAND what they are decoding and that this matters.
Comprehension checks that can be used with or without speech
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