Let's Learn The Speech Sound Monster Sounds!
Library Members use Map and Drag Basic HERE to click and hear the sounds.
The Code Overlay: Show the Code!
Speech Sound Monsters show the speech sounds each grapheme represents. All words here are also Code Mapped, to show which letters are graphemes.
If the child needs to check the sounds they can!
You can also show the Monster Sounds and the child shows which 'Sound Pics' (graphemes) they think correspond.
Two Minute Monsters!
Version without music
Spelling Clouds®
These show all of the “pictures of the speech sounds” and are a helpful reminder to parents of why it is far easier for us to show the code rather than expect children to work out which grapheme to choose when spelling. Although it is often easier to work out words that are already on the page, these examples show how many different choices there are for each speech sound, with only a small number taught within most phonics programmes. The four Core Code Levels include around 100 correspondences, but the full code includes over 300.
If you’d like, I can also sharpen the contrast slightly to make the gap between “programme content” and “the full code” more impactful.
The Universal Code
This is how we introduce the concept in a classroom setting
IPA Reference for Grown-Ups