The Easy Peasy Way To Teach ALL Brains To Read (at any age). H/a/pp/y N/ew Y/ear everyone !!! ( Or Y/ea/r if you pronounce the u or r speech sound at end of word according to your accent) Lets start with a shift in understanding of SSP Phase 2 ie the Learning to Read and Spell phase. Get rid of 90% of what you have previously assumed or been taught at Uni or in PD (unless SSP PD lol). Ill assume you went through Phase 1 (some in about an hour as they already had good phonemic awareness) so that the brains of your students have now been rewired and are READY to learn to read. We call this SSP Orange and there is NO print in this phase. So we are now at Phase 2. Ready for phonics ie the speech sound to sound pic links. Within SSP we call this SSP Fast Code Mapping as it is a more advanced version of phonics than you will ever have seen before, and it leads to students being able to code ALL words, including those put aside as difficult or trick and taught as whole words in all phonics programs. We are going to put away any levelled readers based on the whole language approach eg PM readers, and only use readers the children can code. So they are coding real books from week 1 of Phase 2 - which the children LOVE. They can DO IT! They dont need to guess from picture clues, miss out words they cant figure out etc. They can code every single word. Hurrah! In the SSP Green Level all books are made up of s,a,t,p,i,n,m (as we include Dandelion Readers) and the Kings Helpful Words the, and, I, is - which we also code with the kids. So their brains become really fast at seeing green level words and saying them without having to pause and sound them out. spin pin pan pant ant tin tan pants sat sit it pit pat tip Stan Nan etc Masses of them ! Using names (eg Stan, Nan, Pat, Nin) also means we talk about capital letters. We start talking about punctuation ie that we need to know how the writer was talking. Was he asking a question, surprised, did he need to stop and take a break there? He uses ? ! . to show us how he is talking - these are the Speech Sound Pics used for punctuation ie to show the Writers Voice. We also use a phrase the link these letters with their speech sound representations in this code level, and help the children form them correctly within two weeks. So they are becoming confident with only 6 or 7 sound pics, and also understanding punctuation, and can also UNDERSTAND the text they are coding (ie they are reading it) as their brains are free to do so!! They can even use higher order thinking skills to analyse the text. And we are still only on the first SSP Code Level. So yes, comprehension is HUGE but we know the two skills are very different when Learning to Read. When in Phase 2 the brain- eyes- information processing also goes through 3 phases. You stop this from happening ie for eyes to scan large chunks of text, if you give them text they cant rapidly code. eg PM 1-10 before they have gone through SSP Phase 2 ! Children will be stuck on PM 1-10 as their brains are being blocked. Put away the PM readers until they can code to at least SSP Blue. This doesnt mean recognising the sound pics, it means using them - quickly and easily. They use their code recognition quickly, so that they can blend them and say the words with fluency/ speed. This means the brain can actually understand the meaning - even with only a limited number of Speech Sound Pics (ways to represent the phonemes ie the smallest parts of our spoken language) If they can say the Green Level Rap in less than 14 seconds you know they are ready for Purple (there are also some assessment tests for data collection, and to note the date they were able to recognise the code, blend, segment and manipulate speech sounds and sound pics at each level) Some get there in a week or so, some take a term- but the SSP literacy block means that those who need to move up do so, and those who need to stay at the level stay there. Every child working at their level, and being challenged- with regards to what they write, read, spell ! Complete differentiation - and you dont even need to plan it. Just follow the SSP routine with the resources and every child starts to just work through more or less without you! This is at the point when you realise you are an SSP Conductor. Your role changes. This continues for 4 SSP Levels, at which point they know all 90 Speech Sound Pics, and how to find the other 100 or so. They have gone through the readers needed to actually use these in real reading activities (daily) and so by the end of Blue they can read anything that is developmentally appropriate (they might be able to code Shakespeare but is the text appropriate for 5 year olds?) This is when you can assess them using a standardised test if you really want to eg Probe as shown in video. https://youtube/watch?v=YKnWknpY_3Y Probe education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/proflearn/pages/velsprobe.aspx But they all test reading of children who can code to a certain level as based on how many words, syllables, sentences etc. They miss out a whole learning to code phase. And this is what we know we should be doing according to two decades of research. This is the directive in the UK, and why PMs would not be acceptable there - readers or benchmarking. And as bottom of literacy achievement ladder Australia and NZ really should stop using things all high achievers would pass on eg whole language books, Reading Recovery etc. The things proven NOT to be effective and the things AU and NA are hanging on to. Want change? Then ...um.....change. The Primary National Strategy has acknowledged the value of addressing decoding and comprehension separately in the initial stage of reading instruction. “ … attention should be focused on decoding words rather than the use of unreliable strategies such as looking at the illustrations, rereading the sentence, saying the first sound or guessing what might ‘fit’. Although these strategies might result in intelligent guesses, none of them is sufficiently reliable and they can hinder the acquisition and application of phonic knowledge and skills, prolonging the word recognition process and lessening children’s overall understanding. Children who routinely adopt alternative cues for reading unknown words, instead of learning to decode them, later find themselves stranded when texts become more demanding and meanings less predictable. The best route for children to become fluent and independent readers lies in securing phonics* as the prime approach to decoding unfamiliar words (Primary National Strategy, 2006b, p.9).” * SSP Coding is a more advanced version of phonics we call SSP Fast Code Mapping, if phonics is defined as the linking of speech sounds to their visual representation on paper . So by the end of SSP Blue they are choosing what they want to read (eg Zac Power in Prep), as reading for pleasure challenges them to read more complex text, but also increases their desire to read. You make sure you have a really good selection of age appropriate material for children who can actually read and include library visits. See end of video. This is again why PMs and levelled readers are inappropriate. They assume children are on PM 20+ in about year 2 or 3 !! but if you use SSP Preps are at PM 20+ if tested, after 4 terms. They would be bored silly or the content inappropriate. PMs assume children will take 2 to 4 years to learn to read, as this is how long it does take if you use that approach. We do it in 4 - 8 terms even if dyslexic. If you change the teaching strategies you also have to change the tools. If you use SSP it is all there for you. Code Level Readers found here for all 4 levels. sspreaders Strategies to speed up the process eg Speedy Paired Decoding - found in the members area at wiringbrains Everything need for 25 kids plus 12 months access to the teacher site for whiteboard lessons etc is just $440 plus GST for the first class (less for subsequent classes) wiringbrains/#!sign-up/c20a3 Miss Emma The Reading Whisperer Every child enters Year 2 no longer reading to learn. Non negotiable. Every team member helps every teacher get their kids there.
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