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. Reading for pleasure by 7!
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
More here soon!