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.
The Core Code: YCL
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Use Code Mapping® and Monster Mapping® to help children who struggle with synthetic phonics see the letters and sounds more clearly. Start with the 10-day Speech Sound Play Plan before phonics. Then use our Mapped Words® resources to support learners who continue to find reading and spelling difficult.
(The Speech Sound Pics® Approach is not a systematic synthetic phonics programme.)