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.
Learn to use Speedie Readies: Show the Code. This is the one to one dual pathway support system that enables any child with the cognitive capacity to comprehend text to read and spell. The technology supports phonemic awareness and phonological working memory and it also shows the Code whenever it is needed. It is a system unlike anything else in the world. For the first time children can understand how letters and sounds connect for any word at any moment.
A two hour training session guides parents and tutors in using the ground-breaking MyWordz® technology and resources to make reading and spelling easier for all learners. Children can type the sounds and instantly see how the words are spelled. They can also type words and see each grapheme with its matched sound, clearly mapped with Phonemies®. The tech says and shows the blended sounds until children can do it independently. They learn to read with fluency and comprehension using the series of One, Two, Three and Away stories.
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You can then pay the £75 special half-price intro price to use MyWordz.tech for 12 months.
If you would like to use the app version you can pay for licences once logged in (£5.75 per year) and use these links to access the app version with your login credentials
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The first tech to map words in both directions!
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MyWordz®: My Word Bank!
After Speech Sound Play intro learn to use the tech to map ALL words at SpeedieReadies.com
Use Check Monster Mapping® to see the mapped Speech Sound Monsters!
Play the words with MySpeekie®! Use Map and Drag to create the mapped word, then download and print it. Add it to your MyWordz® folder!
MySpeekie One-Screen AAC is just one feature of the Word Mapping Mastery Tech
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Mapped Wordz® matters for so many learners!
MySpeekie® gives non-speaking children a voice, can be used as a spell-check tool, supports those learning English as an additional language, and addresses the core difficulties identified in the Delphi Dyslexia Definition—phonemic awareness, phonological working memory, and language.
Use these words to talk with learners. Let them choose the words that matter to them—they’ll talk much more!
The tech is also ideal for teaching phonics, as it makes the phoneme-to-grapheme mapping visible, allowing adults to map words with learners using the whole code - the Universal Spelling Code.
Although the expected letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) are prescribed by the Department for Education (DfE)—based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)—many teachers have never used the IPA and may not realise the discrepancies between the expected sounds and those used by learners when learning phonics. Without this awareness, they may miss opportunities to better support children—especially those who find phonics difficult to learn.
While the core correspondences are prescribed (as tested in the Phonics Screening Check), the expected mapping of other correspondences is often unclear—highlighting the importance of using the IPA. This tech reduces the workload for adults and provides the on-the-job word mapping training they aren’t getting elsewhere. Their learning happens because they’re using the tech.
Phonemies are child-friendly alternatives to phonetic symbols, created to make it easier to connect letters and sounds—to 'talk on paper', even if it doesn’t exactly match how we speak. This universal code is unconsciously understood by skilled readers with strong phonemic awareness. It’s how they easily store words in the orthographic lexicon and therefore recognise words on sight and know when a word ‘looks right’ when spelling—it’s all thanks to a huge brain word bank.