The Code Overlay: Show the 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. Welcome to the home of The Code Overrlay! Phonemies®, pronounced /f əʊ n iː m i: z/, are IPA aligned Speech Sound Monsters® that show the code: Learn how to support Speech Sound Mapping from Birth
WMM Training Corner
Join the Upstream Team. Specialist Dyslexia Intervention Service supporting children with EHCPs through targeted teaching to help them read, spell and use written language more confidently.
Neuro-Inclusive Word Mapping Mastery
Training for Grownups!
%20(2).jpg)
Also ask about our public workshops for parents, no teaching qualification or experience of teaching reading and spelling required!
Learn to support all children towards Word Mapping Mastery®
Screening for Dyslexia Risk in the Early Years
Preventing the Dyslexia Paradox with Emma Hartnell-Baker's Phonemies (Speech Sound Monsters) Learn how to screen for dyslexia risk and offer 1:1 support to high dyslexia risk children with the Speedie Readies Dual-Learning System
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!
Those training with Miss Emma can access sections that showcase the core reading and spelling activities. These word mapping enhancement activities can be used in intervention settings as well as whole-class instruction, across all primary grade levels. They are designed to support reading fluency and comprehension, as well as accurate spelling within writing tasks
Stanislas Dehaene talks about subtypes of dyslexia, like letter position and attentional dyslexia. These are exactly the kinds of things we talk about when we're trying to understand why some children are become instructional casualties
Show the Code with Phonemies! The Universal Spelling Code Made Visible for All: MyWordz App download
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mywordz-with-myspeekie/id6737770129 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thereadinghut.mywordz
Web Version MyWordz.tech
Word Mapping with Miss Emma
"Every child needs to learn it, so we might as well make it fun!"
Emma Hartnell-Baker holds a Masters Degree in Special Educational Needs and is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Reading. She trains SENDCos for specialist organisations such as PATOSS with Dr Grace Elliott who offers ADHD and Dyslexia Assessments.
Miss Emma has been training teachers in Australia for nearly a decade and holds dual nationality. Before moving to Queensland, she was an OFSTED Inspector and managed two 'Outstanding' nurseries. She also holds a BEd Hons with a specialism in the Early Years and is passionate about play-based, personalised learning—for both children and educators!
Those who train with 'Miss Emma' often leave sessions with a renewed excitement for effectively balancing systematic phonics instruction with discovery-based word mapping. Word Mapping revolves around connecting speech sounds, spelling and meaning. The Word Mapping Book will continue to evolve after its release, addressing every possible question a parent or teaching professional might have about the individual children under their guidance. Look out for linked clips that demonstrate chapter content and showcase Miss Emma as she identifies and overcomes learning barriers when working with children new to mapping 'Sound Pics' to 'Phonemies'!
As Miss Emma says, "There's so much more to Word Mapping than 'learning phonics'. Word Mapping from birth changes lives."
Why We Map Words With and For Children
Phonemies show the SOUND value. Idea for words with GPCs they don't yet know!
They can 'follow the monster sounds to say the word' and THEN check the Sound Pics.
Speaking in Speech Sounds with an Autistic Learner
The Spelling Routine with a Dyslexic Student
We teach parents and teachers how to articulate the 'Monster Sounds' and blend them into words. The speech sounds they use may differ from the phonemes expected when mapping words, and we need to discuss this! Accents have a significant impact on word mapping.
Start using Duck Hands and mapping
words visually and linguistically from
birth. We are growing readers!
