Welcome to the official Speedie Readies Membership site. The only place to access the orthographically mapped One, Two, Three and Away series of books online. We Show the Code with Phonemies!
Teaching phonics? Just show the Code. It just makes sense. Especially those those with high dyslexia risk factors. Many neurodivergent learners are natural pattern seekers - by showing them the mapping of words in only one direction (grapheme-to-phoneme) we rob them of opportunities to self-teach.
The bi-directional nature of the code can no longer be ignored if we want to prevent reading and spelling difficulties in countries where print to speech (grapheme-to-phoneme) remains the primary focus, likely because no one knows how to tackle speech to print.
It’s time to stop blaming the so-called ‘SEN crisis’ on children, parents, or teachers. Synthetic phonics is still mandated in England, mostly because the science of reading isn’t fully understood, and the how of teaching children to map words within an opaque orthography is underexplored. This is why people resort to spelling rules and teaching sight words as whole words to memorise.
We can fill the learning gaps with Phonemies, really easily. A TA can do this outside of phonics lessons, even if just for 'sight words'.
Parents, you can too. No knowledge of orthographic mapping required. Let’s immunise children against illiteracy.
Tutors - children need you! Get in touch to find out how to add Phonemies to your word mapping toolkit. No more teaching spelling rules.
ANY child can learn to read with ease. Start from birth. We can also prevent the dyslexia paradox – no child needs to struggle with literacy.
To do this, we must stop ignoring the bi-directional nature of the code.
When teaching print to speech with only a limited number of grapheme to phoneme correspondences (tested in the PSC) , we make learning to connect letters and sounds too hard. We do not need to do that any more.
The MyWordz® technology - Innovate UK Funded- shows the letters and the sounds for all words.
Their speech and language skills will be amazing when they start school too.
Bridget - here's your answer. Not more testing.
Passing the PSC is short sighted - they can't decode 'any' with that set. Without Phonemies they'd need to guess, or memorise. The very strategies the DfE says are ineffective.
Just show the Code. It just makes sense.
