
Speedie Readies: Show the Code! Word Mapping Mastery® for All Brains. The One, Two, Three and Away! books are mapped with Phonemies to show which letters are graphemes and their phoneme (speech sound) value. Learn why word mapping matters on PRE.


Contact the Upstream Team
If your child is accessing EOTAS, get in touch to request a specialist literacy ssessment, personalised plan, and support using Word Mapping Mastery® in your own home, or online if your child prefers.
The Reading Hut supports children in England accessing Education Otherwise Than At School (EOTAS) provision, and Word
Mapping Mastery® (using Speech Sound Mapping with Phonemies®) can be included within Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) provision. Your primary aged child will be assigned their own SpLD Level 7 Learning Whisperer®, to oversee all of their literacy needs.
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in”.
Desmond Tutu



Emma Hartnell-Baker, MEd SEN, is a teacher, former Ofsted inspector, and former owner-manager of two nurseries rated Outstanding by Ofsted. After more than a decade training teachers in Australia, she returned to England as a doctoral researcher in word mapping. Known as the Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer®, she helps four-year-olds start self-teaching to read within weeks. Through The Reading Hut Ltd she has launched the Early Dyslexia Screening Centre in Dorset and plans to roll out centres across the country. Her mission is clear: identify the one in four most at risk before they start school and change the story. The Upstream Team has recently launched Phonics Reform England (PRE)