
Speedie Readies: One, Two, Three and Away! with The Code Overlay. The Upstream Team supports the Word Mapping Mastery System®. The pre-mapped Village With Three Corners book series gets children excited about reading in Reception. Learn why this matters on PRE.


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“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)