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Word Mapping Made Easy
Did you know that there are over 350 GPCs?
Although phonics programmes kick-start the process, there are over 350 GPCs, far too many to teach explicitly. Let’s show the code so that children can discover them as they encounter words, at the time they need that information. It’s a much easier way to explore the whole orthographic code. Were you aware of how many there are?
SSP Core Code Level Chants
Passing the Phonics Screening Check before Year 1 Made Easy
Learning the 100 or so GPCs needed to pass the Phonics Screening Check is easy when using the Speech Sound Pics Approach®. Around 90% of children will pass before the start of Year 1.
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If you are a parent, simply work through the Monster Spelling Piano® app. It is an easy and enjoyable way for children to learn these correspondences early, and they really stick because children are mapping both speech to print and print to speech.
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For even better results, use it alongside the Code Level Chants.
We need children to have mastered the Core Code early and easily so there is more time to explore the WHOLE code!
During Word Mapping Mastery® training Miss Emma explores the whole orthographic code with teachers. The correspondences are displayed in the Spelling Clouds®, helping teachers understand why some children can pass the Phonics Screening Check (PSC) yet still struggle to read with fluency and comprehension or to spell accurately. Only around 100 GPCs are taught within synthetic phonics programmes and tested at the end of Year 1.
Here are the sounds of the five vowel letters: a, e, i, o, and u. It’s time to start thinking outside the synthetic phonics box.
Lucas has two vowel letters in his name!
Even at this age, and before any phonics instruction, he can make the link between the sounds in his name and the letters because he can see the sound value, as the Speech Sound Monsters are sitting on the lines numbered 1 to 5.
Avery has two vowel letters in his name too!
His blending skills are so strong that he can figure out the words by blending the Monster Sounds. He can then look at the letters that map to them. At this age he is more interested in speech to print.
So for the single letter grapheme <a> there are at least 9 phonemes (speech sounds): ant, any, want, father, another, orange, table, scary, water.
For the single letter grapheme <e> there are at least 7 phomemes: men, women, ensuite, men, label, cafe, cereal
For the single letter grapheme <i> there are at least 5 phomemes: meringue, onion, variation, mild, in
For the single letter grapheme <o> there are at least 8 phomemes: Monday, women, woman, choir, most, story, on, botton
For the single letter grapheme <u> there are at least 8 phomemes: pupil, busy, bury, put, super, during, up, penguin