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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.
Phonemies are Speech Sound Characters. Let's Learn The Speech Sound Monster Sounds!
Phonemies show the sound value linked to each grapheme in an opaque orthography, making these relationships visible when only a limited set of correspondences has been explicitly taught in phonics lessons. The Core Code is shown in the SSP Chants. There are hundreds more! When we show which letters are graphemes and their sound value, we better support all children, especially the 1 in 5 who would usually fall behind .
Learn the Monster Sounds quickly! The Two Minute Monster Video.
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When the Code Is Not Visible: Why One in Five Children Struggle to Read
One in four children in England cannot read by the age of eleven because they cannot work out how the letters on the page relate to the sounds in spoken words. Even when they can do this for part of the code, it takes so long to work out the words that they lose track of what they have already read and cannot understand the text. They are unable to rely on memorising words and do not succeed through synthetic phonics programmes, because the connection between speech and print is not clear to them. They become frustrated and stop trying. Reading is not pleasurable.
Emma Hartnell-Baker has developed the Code Mapping® Tool, which makes this relationship explicit. In the Code Mapping® display, each word is fully segmented into graphemes, with every grapheme shown as a complete unit in sequence across the word. Alternating colours simply mark where one grapheme ends and the next begins, making the structure visible.
When the words are fully mapped each grapheme maps directly to a phoneme, represented by Phonemies®, so when the word is read grapheme by grapheme, the full structure of the code is already there. This is not a hint or an overlay. It is the complete orthographic code made visible, enabling the learner to access how speech and print connect.
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.
The English Pronunication Code: 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.
The English Pronunication Code: Connecting Speech and Print.
This is how we introduce the concept in a classroom setting
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