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Miss Emma the Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer

Word Mapping Mastery with The Reading Whisperer

The Speech Sound Mapping Theory
Bonding speech sounds, spelling and meaning. Mapping phonemes and graphemes with plausible pronunciations and strong vocabulary knowledge facilitates set for variability and an easier route towards self-teaching.

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Using Set for Variablity? Or 'Guess the Word and Map it Backwards'

Set for Variability - a fancy term for 'map it backwards'

Miss Emma, The Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer, responds to a recent Reading League post about SfV and this statement : "Did you know set for variability can be a stronger predictor of word-reading skill for students with dyslexia than phonological awareness (Steacy et al., 2022)?

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Oct 4, 20255 min read

Word Mapping Mastery® through self-teaching, in the early years.

1 in 4 Still Failing to Read With Phonics in England: Why We Built MyWordz® to Make the Code Visible "Stay away! Don't touch!"Those were...

The Reading Hut Ltd

Jun 23, 20252 min read

Children can say the word and see the spelling using Smiley Spelling!y

Left Behind by Phonics: Why Spelling is the Missing Link

Mapping speech sounds (phonemes) to graphemes (the letters or letter groups that represent them) from speech to print for spelling has a...

The Reading Hut Ltd

Jun 22, 20252 min read

Word Mapping Mastery❌ It's a no-go: there is no /oe/ in goes!

I was sent this by someone recently, as she was questioning the word mapping accuracy. I think she had seen it on social media. A huge...

The Reading Hut Ltd

Jun 8, 20254 min read

The Word Mapping Mastery (WMM) Blog

The Speech Sound Mapping Theory Bonding speech sounds, spelling and meaning. Mapping phonemes and graphemes with plausible pronunciations and strong vocabulary knowledge facilitates set for variability and an easier route towards self-teaching.

All Posts

Set for Variability - a fancy term for 'map it backwards'

Word Mapping Mastery® through self-teaching, in the early years.

Left Behind by Phonics: Why Spelling is the Missing Link

Word Mapping Mastery❌ It's a no-go: there is no /oe/ in goes!

MyWordz® – Word Mapping Mastery® for All Brains Smiley Spelling! 😊 No Guessing. No Memorising. No Rules. 😊Visit SmileySpelling.com

The Speech Sound Mapping Theory
Bonding speech sounds, spelling and meaning. Mapping phonemes and graphemes with plausible pronunciations and strong vocabulary knowledge facilitates set for variability and an easier route towards self-teaching.

MyWordz® – Word Mapping Mastery® for All Brains
Smiley Spelling!
😊 No Guessing. No Memorising. No Rules. 😊Visit SmileySpelling.com