Letters and Sounds Phase 1 with Phonemies: A Sound Start to KS1 for Non-Speaking, EAL & Neurodivergent Learners
10-day plan with MySpeekie® to develop speech sound awareness through Phonemies Play – before starting systematic synthetic phonics (SSP).
Letters and Sounds
Phase 1 with Phonemies - Phonemic Awareness Mastery
Day 9
Goals of the Day!
Continue with the activities!
Our focus is now on connecting the Phonemies (Speech Sound Monsters) Sound Pics (graphemes) and the meaning - with the Visual Prompts along with a few high frequency words!
Because we will over-pronounce the sound/s in the words 'a' and 'the' we use the Blue Cow instead of the schwa at this stage, as with names.
Mapping a few Duck Level Words so that we can connect words and build sentences!
Grown-Ups Corner - Day 9 Preparation
In the reception classroom, you can follow this 10-day plan to get to know the children and observe how they learn.
In pre-school, you can spread this out over several weeks! There’s no rush to introduce Sound Pics (graphemes), and you don’t need to follow the plan with a large group. Ideally, activities should be done with just a few children at a time. You may start to form groups of children at similar stages of understanding—some may be using only the Phonemies for activities, while others also incorporate the Sound Pics. As with most learning within the Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach, the same activities are used but adapted to different skill levels. This ensures that even in a classroom setting, we provide differentiation and a personalised learning experience.
Day 9 clips at home, nursery (kindy) or the classroom!
It is going to be easy to transition into sentences when they can use any words - and because of the Phonemies they don't have to wait. They can use MySpeekie to build sentences in Speech Sounds first, to see the words.
This is not what happens when they start the synthetic phonics programme, and they have to first learn the graphemes, but you can add in Phonemies - especially when it comes to common exception words. Do this alongside your synthetic phonics, when you start it after Phase 1 with Phonemies.
It will be easy to extend to more words because the format is always the same—Duck Hands®, Speech Sound Lines, and Numbers!
They connect these with both Phonemies® (the sound value) and the Sound Pics® (graphemes). The Phonemies allow children to understand the mapping of ANY word.
Ensure they understand the meaning, and they will store these new words in the orthographic lexicon (brain word bank). This is the Speech Sound Mapping Theory.
Kensi is 4 years old here. She is autistic. This 'just makes sense' to her pattern-seeking mind/ It's a fun puzzle!
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