"Show the Spelling Code!"
Phonemies help children see, hear, and articulate phonemes, which makes the speech to print relationship clearer and word mapping more accessible. This visual and linguistic support is particularly helpful for neurodivergent learners who benefit from explicit cues when developing early reading and spelling skills.
Phonemies®, pronounced /f əʊ n iː m i: z/, are IPA aligned Speech Sound Monsters® that show the code: Parent and Tutor Course Speedie Word Mapping from Birth
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/monster-spelling-piano/id6717616998
Speech Sound Monsters (Phonemies) are fun IPA-aligned characters that make sounds visible, helping children easily map English words, including tricky 'sight words'.
The Monster Spelling Piano app is a speech-to-print phonics app designed to make learning 'letters and sounds' fun and easy for children. It’s perfect for practising essential reading and spelling skills like phoneme isolation, segmentation, and blending. The app features GPCs tested in the UK Phonics Screening Check, supporting early literacy development.
With Phonemies, fun speech sound characters, and Code Mapping® to clarify graphemes, the app offers visual enhancements such as black/white highlights and split digraphs in blue for improved understanding. It also includes over 100 high-frequency 'irregular' words to help children confidently navigate English orthography.
Ideal for neurodiverse classrooms, The Monster Spelling Piano app is widely used by speech therapists and educators who follow the Speech Sound Pics Approach. It supports children with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia through its engaging, multisensory Speech Sound Mapping approach to grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (GPCs).
The app operates on a one-off payment model of £14.99
Speech Sound Mapping: Discovery Learning in Mind
When you show the code, you don't need to 'explicitly teach' the concepts—the 'Code Mapping®' (black/grey to indicate the Sound Pics®/graphemes) plus the Phonemies to show the sound value just make sense to children's brains.
Word Mapping Mastery!
