Welcome to the official Speedie Readies Membership site. The only place to access the One, Two, Three and Away series of books online. Speedie Readies: Preventing the Dyslexia Paradox.

Speedie Readies: Preventing the Dyslexia Paradox

Although these children have been identified because they struggle to read and write words containing the first taught GPCs (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss), our focus is on understanding why each individual child is finding this difficult, and helping that child learn to map words with confidence in both directions.

This intervention is not designed to reinforce what they are learning in their school’s synthetic phonics programme. Although it supports the mastery of these GPCs at the start, it does not clash with classroom phonics instruction. Children continue to participate fully in their school’s phonics lessons.

Speedie Readies is a separate, targeted approach that addresses the underlying difficulties that prevent children from blending and segmenting words successfully. It is designed to remove the barriers that block progress towards the self-teaching phase and fluent, confident reading with comprehension.

These early blending and segmenting difficulties often indicate risk of dyslexia and may relate to differences in speech sound processing, phonological working memory, or rapid automatic naming. Simply repeating classroom phonics content will not resolve these challenges.

This is a targeted intervention created to prevent the dyslexia paradox, designed by SpLD and SLCN specialists.

Aims of the Prevention (Pre-Intervention) Phase

Children learn to map words from speech to print and print to speech within meaningful context. Our technology maps every word of English in both directions (patent being applied for) and accounts for accents and connected text. More importantly, children can see the code within a series of books, so their support is always within meaningful context. They develop skills such as set for variability, start predicting and using inference, and they love the characters. The books were written by an award-winning children’s author.

How It Works

During sessions, children:

• See each grapheme in a word and its corresponding sound value, supported by Phonemies. We "Show the Code". 

• Learn to use MyWordz®, the world’s first bi-directional orthographic word-mapping technology, which can also function as an AAC tool for non-speaking children or those with SLCN (Speech, Language and Communication Needs). At least one in five children will start school with SLCN. This intervention offers 1:1 support.  

• Engage with One, Two, Three and Away! mapped pre-readers, supported by Speech Sound Puppets, finger puppets, and Story Peg People to act out stories and connect reading with meaning, and to build confidence with speaking and listening skills. 

The technology, funded through Innovate UK, enables children to:

• See the full speech-to-print and print-to-speech structure of words, even when graphemes are not yet taught in their classroom phonics programme. They are able to explore an opaque orthography, and play with words that have unfamiliar correspondences as the code is shown. Word Mapping is visual and so reduces cognitive load, and builds confidence.   

• Understand how to spell by exploring spelling choices in English’s opaque orthography using the tech.

• Apply this understanding independently in class, using technology to spell and decode any word, again building condience and independence.

Structure
 

• Frequency: 10 minutes per day, four times per week - in a dedicated learning space (the table will have resources sitting there ready)

• Delivered by: A teaching assistant (TA)

• Group size: Ideally 1:1 please.

The barriers preventing the child from understanding how letters and sounds connect with the synthetic phonics programme will have been addressed. Each child will be moving towards the self-teaching phase, and parents will understand how to continue support at home. They will recognise that this is separate to any home reading or activities relating to their synthetic phonics programme. 

Access and Resources: Getting Started 
 

• Set of 36 pre-readers £140

• One, Two, Three and Away! Handbook. £30

• Phonemies Core Bundle £70
  Buy as a Bundle for £225
   

• Access to the Reading Corner £5.75 per month
  Includes 72 Mapped books: Orthographically mapped One, Two, Three and Away! - Online (Digital) Library Plus the Main Readers, Red, Green and Yellow Platform Readers

• Web version of MyWordz® for £95 per year. 

• Optional App licences £5.95 per academic year.

• Monster Spelling Piano app £14.95 (one-time purchase)
  
  Libraries: Encouraged to stock the full series and handbook for community access. Download and send this pdf.
  1:1 Support is also offered The Early Dyslexia Screening Centre 

Pilot Opportunity

We are offering free access to resources and support for a limited number of schools participating in our January 2026 pilot. This is being delivered through Not for Profit MySLCN CIC

This initiative will gather feedback and real-world evidence ahead of submission to the Education Endowment Foundation.