Emma Hartnell-Baker is an ND teacher who thinks and learns differently. 'Miss Emma' designs activities that include and engage ALL learners - wiring brains for orthographic learning. Over ten years ago she started to SHOW Aussie learners the Universal Spelling Code - through 'Code Mapping' - showing the segmented graphemes in written English words - and has developed an alternative to phonetic symbols for children, so that they can SEE a speech sound symbol - but that does not get in the way of learning. The characters do not link with a letter until in a word; this is vital for neurodivergent learners. Mapped Words are used to boost phonemic awareness and orthographic learning of students, and orthographic knowledge of parents and teachers. Visible English speeds up decoding fluency, frees up working memory, and allows implicit learning to take place. Miss Emma is now living in the UK.
Visible Speech Sounds
The Universal English Spelling Code
The Visible English Spelling Code helps those learning to read and spell HEAR the speech sounds and SEE the 'pictures' of the speech sounds. As patterns seekers, 'Code Mapping' is at the heart of the popular Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach - developed by a neurodivergent teachers, and now used across Australia
Show the Code!
You will need the SSP Spelling Piano app - Speech Sound Monster Screen
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High frequency phoneme-grapheme correspondences are shown on the outside of the Spelling Clouds.
For the purposes of my work I refer to 'irregular words' as those with one of more grapheme to phoneme correspondence that is not included in these 4 Code Levels (the commonly used graphemes) They are not all 'high frequency' words. Miss Emma
