Show the Code : Ortho-GraphiX®
The Reading Hut® is innovating across communication, reading and spelling. Powered by Ortho-GraphiX®, our technologies and learning pathways help every child achieve Word Mapping Mastery®. We offer DfE-Aligned Bidirectional Word Mapping Training for Reception, KS1 and KS2 Teachers
Word Mapping Mastery® (WMM) Invitation Only Training Corner
Why is Word Mapping Mastery® the key to making phonics work for all? Phonics Reform England
Word Mapping Mastery® is not a programme. It is an approach used throughout the day to secure phonemic awareness and bond together phonemes, graphemes, spelling and meaning more efficiently in the brain’s word bank, freeing cognitive resources for fluency and comprehension. It can be used from birth, connecting speech and print.
As the DfE rolls out its Experts at Hand initiative, we are preparing to launch the Word Mapping Mastery® experts at hand training course and a directory of trained specialists, ready to support nurseries, schools and families with practical, personalised alternatives for children who are not thriving through synthetic phonics instruction alone.
WMM experts at hand will be able to show staff how to map words with children throughout the day, at the point of need, using ANY words, at ANY stage of learning. They store the word in the brain's word bank using a 60 second Spelling Routine
Less teaching, more self-teaching.
Neuro-Inclusive Word Mapping Mastery Training
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Also ask about our public workshops for parents, no teaching qualification or experience of teaching reading and spelling required!
Learn to support very young children towards Word Mapping Mastery®
This is upstream screening and support, to prevent the dyselxia paradox.
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 Mastery Training with Miss Emma
"Every child needs to be able to map words, 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!
