The SSP Spelling Piano app, developed in Australia a few years ago, will be replaced with an even better app in August!

In addition to all the Grapheme-to-Phoneme correspondences taught within a systematic phonics program and tested within the Phonics Screening Check, there will be over 150 high-frequency words to map orthographically and store in the orthographic lexicon (brain word bank).

If children in reception/prep have access to this at home on tablets, they will reach the expected targets for the end of Year 1 in half the time. Why? It also addresses poor phonemic awareness—the leading cause of reading difficulties.

The new Monster Spelling Piano app will be launched in time for the new UK academic year. It is ideal for kids in Australia who are halfway through the year and aren’t yet sure of letter names or phonics. Tell parents about it, and they will help you boost that end-of-year data.

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This app is in addition to the fabulous—groundbreaking!—Innovate UK-funded tech, which schools around the world will be able to license. Children can see the spelling of any word and also transition from ‘decoding’ to sight word reading in half the time (orthographic mapping theory in action).