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"On a mission to inspire every child to read, learn, and find joy in words. We are the proud new publishers of the One, Two, Three and Away! series and are using them as Dyslexia Whisperers."
Need to order Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach resources for your classroom in Australia in Aussie dollars with an ABN?
Order through The Reading Hut Australia or via a Purchase Order - email support@ReadingHut.com.au
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The Reading Hut Ltd is now publishing of the Village With Three Corners series by Sheila McCullagh. Ask your local library to stock them!
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When I first graduated and set out to inspire children to not just learn to read but to be 'readies'—devouring books like chocolate—I was told by the head teacher not to use a 'scheme' and simply immerse children in rich literature. I wasn't prepared to leave such an important skill to chance, so I ignored her wishes. As teachers, we often have to do this—they are in our care, and we care! Almost all my students were readers by the time they moved up to Year 1, in stark contrast to the children in the other infants' class.
When I started to develop my own 'visual and linguistic' phonics approach in Australia, I knew when children were ready for more than just decodable books aligned with phonics. However, I couldn't find a series that would inspire children to engage in stories. Having had such success with "The Village with Three Corners," I set out on a mission to make The Reading Hut Ltd the proud publishers of this series, bringing it back into the hands of budding readers. My persistence paid off. Please do reach out if you can help me get these books into libraries for free access to all children. It costs a lot to print, but libraries can stock them!
Emma Hartnell-Baker Support@TheReadingHut.com
Don't Wait. Eight is Too Late.
SpeedieReadies.com
Empowering TAs to prevent the Dyslexia Paradox with 1:1 support for the one in five.
The Speedie Readies pathway is not an adaptation of synthetic phonics and will not affect any programmes currently used in class. Instead, it provides a visual way to show the orthographic mapping of words using a series of books from the One, Two, Three and Away! series.
Funded by Innovate UK, MyWordz® helps children make sense of written language by showing the full speech–sound structure of words. We SHOW the Code. It is especially helpful for learners who have difficulty retaining spellings, self-correcting when writing, or decoding words with fluency. MySpeekie® enables non-speaking children to build and voice words using speech sounds on a single screen.
The Reading Hut is bringing The Story People back to UK nurseries and schools through The Speech Sound Play Plan!
My mother was the infants teacher every child wanted: genuinely interested in them as individuals, caring, and always going the extra mile to meet their learning needs. She played the piano, taught everyone the recorder, and there was daily singing and rhyming. She began every Monday morning with their weekend news, read a story at the end of each day, listened to every child read almost daily, and encouraged plenty of free play.
There was always a dress-up area and an ever-changing home corner—sometimes a shop, café, or post office. She had a craft and box-work space set up where children could grab an apron and a pot of glue or paint and create freely, without direction. She used The Village With Three Corners to teach across the curriculum. Within the series, children would dress up and act out the stories, count change and solve real-life maths problems in the village shop, write letters to the characters and post them in the class post box, draw maps of the Village Square, and much more.
Every child left her Reception class as a reader. Every single one.
She passed away last year, and I am so glad I tracked down and obtained the print rights to the series so I could honour her and the way we used to be able to teach four- to six-year-olds, with talking, play, and stories at the heart of everything we did. I became an early years teacher because of her. And I am excited to bring back The Story People, to be used within the Speech Sound Pics Approach.
Emma Hartnell-Baker
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The Early Dyslexia Screening Centre uses Monster Mapped® books to give at risk learners the complete information about how letters and sounds connect. These editions make the full code visible at the moment of reading, providing the clarity and orthographic knowledge that at least 1 in 4 children do not receive through synthetic phonics programmes. Ask about the Speedie Readies Intervention: Preventing the Dyslexia Paradox
Libraries can order the Village with Three Corners books through Askews, Gardners and other major suppliers. A downloadable ISBN list is available to help with orders.
Includes info for Australian customers
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Emma Hartnell-Baker aka The Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer® is an SEN specialist who champions the prevention of language and literacy difficulties and is a passionate advocate for children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN)and who think . At the recent World Literacy Summit, she shared practical examples of how to screen toddlers for early signs of dyslexia risk.
The Reading Hut Ltd connects every stage of the Speech Sound Pics® (SSP) Approach so families, teachers and libraries can follow the full path from first sounds to fluent reading.
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SpeechSoundPlay.com is the starting point. Children follow the 10-day Speech Sound Play Plan to explore speech sounds with Duck Hands, learn the Monster sounds, and begin Monster Word Mapping®, while we screen for dyslexia risk and address speech sound processing needs.
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Next, children move through the four Code Levels of the SSP Approach: Green, Purple, Yellow and Blue. These levels cover all core GPCs and more than 400 orthographically mapped high-frequency words across seven Duck Levels with activities for reading comprehension, writing and spelling.
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Code Level readers that are both Code Mapped and Monster Mapped, include common exception words. These engaging books make grapheme–phoneme connections visible and are a world first that is essential for the one in four learners at risk of dyslexia. At the end of the Purple Code Level, children can enjoy the Monster Mapped One, Two, Three and Away! series (The Village with Three Corners) and progress through over 100 mapped titles.
Libraries can order these through Askews, Gardners and other major suppliers. A downloadable ISBN list is available to help with orders.
Every speech sound of English has a Phonemie®, so children “follow the monster sounds to say the word” and then notice the graphemes. SALTs will see the link between Phonemies (Speech Sound Monsters) and the IPA.
Emma Hartnell-Baker, The Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer®, leads this work. Her doctoral research into orthographic interference and teacher word mapping informs all Reading Hut resources, ensuring inclusive literacy support and Word Mapping Mastery® for all.