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.
Teaching the SSP Core Code
These are the 100 or so GPCs tested in the PSC and in the
old DfE Letters and Sounds programme.
The Core Code can be taught in two ways. In a classroom setting it is taught through the Speech Sound Pics Approach, which is the visual and linguistic whole class programme. For one to one teaching it is delivered as Path 1 within Speedie Readies.
The entire alphabetic code is not taught within a whole class phonics programmes, so most children need opportunities to explore the full code to become confident readers and spellers. We do this in Path 2 of Speedie Readies.
If you are teaching phonics on a 1:1 basis, for example if your child has not yet started school, you are home educating, or you are a tutor, you don’t need to follow the Speech Sound Pics SSP) Approach classroom routines. These are designed to manage learner needs in a large group setting.
Simply use Path 1 of Speedie Readies.
Emma Hartnell-Baker MEd SEN | Expert in Preventing the Dyslexia Paradox
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This is the Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach Core Code
Speech Sound Play (SSP) with Speech Sound Pics! (SSP) Approach
Children will always love SSP
This aligns with the DfE recommended GPC teaching order
Explore the WHOLE Code as Path 2 of Speedie Readies
