Self-Paced phonics in the classroom setting: The Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach, with the Ten Day Speech Sound Play Plan, part of the Word Mapping Mastery system®. Letters that function as graphemes in words are known as sound pictures, that is, Speech Sound Pics. We show the Code through the Code Mapping Algorithm, with Phonemies - Speech Sound Monsters - making the sound value visible.
We can make "Sounding it Out" easier!
We already have the unique word-mapping algorithm that shows which letters belong together, and Phonemies to show each sound value. The Innovate UK Funded MyWordz® technology already provides everything children need to map words, which is the process phonics aims to teach. The coding needed is largely in place. But what about a new handheld word scanner: The Word Mapper? A Word Mapper - or Word Scanner! - designed for children like Rex who may be at risk of dyslexia, especially when there is a family history? Let us know what you think!
Emma Hartnell-Baker MEd SEN
Teachers tasked with teaching phonics in England are ready for change.
We are listening.
SSP is the first self-paced systematic phonics learning option, enabling every child to work through the SSP Code Code at their own rate.
At the end of the Purple Core Code Level they start the readers, as they are pre-mapped!
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This clip shows Stacey Solomon (BBC "Stacey and Joe") being her usual wonderful self with Rex, fitting in hearing him read his home reader while getting her hair and make-up done.
When Rex sounds out buh… yuh… for the word 'by', Stacey gently replies, “Buh yuh spells by,” and agrees that it doesn’t make sense, it's just how it is. Buh yuh always spells by.
He then tells her that he always gets it wrong at school, and she reassures him: “That’s not wrong. It’s just your learning. There’s no such thing as getting it wrong.”
But is it a plausible pronunication? We do not say buh yuh, and this is why Joe found it hard too. With different 'Speech Sound Pics) support it always makes sense!
She is doing everything she can to help, making sure he does not feel bad that reading is hard. It is not his fault; the teaching is not meeting his needs, and his mum is doing her best without clear guidance around connecting letters and sounds through synthetic phonics.
Are we supporting parents enough? And we rarely get to watch parents listening to their child read at home. I watched this and thought Rex would love a hand-held'word scanner!' The Word Mapper. Shall we ask her?
I'll be stating a support group for parents of children struggling to 'sound out' words despite daily synthetic phonics in school, so they know how to help at home. I wonder what guidance Stacey has had. To prevent the dyslexia paradox we need to support at risk children far earlier, and that means supporting their parents.