Exploring SSP Purple, Yellow and Blue Level Concepts

Look at everyday objects and link the speech sounds with the sound pics, and record in album. Download all clouds from slideshare.net/readingwhisperer

Some sound pics represent more than one speech sound eg ow, c, g. Create clouds like this (there may be more than 2 clouds) to explore the variations

fantastic fish black bags chicken legs little green boat spoon

Some speech sounds are represented by more than one sound pic. Explore this concept by drawing something in the middle that makes you think of

that speech sound, and then organise words around it, into clouds. (You know how many there are by looking at your speech sound clouds.)

train stamps king happy spit

Exploring speech sound pics for ‘ay’ also reinforces the concept that some sound pics represent more than one speech sound

as they will see ‘eigh’ and ‘ea’. Talk about eight / height head / lead (dog lead) etc.

The more they explore and self-discover (with careful guidance) the more

easily their brains will ‘get’ these concepts, and work out new words (for spelling and also reading) themselves.

It is important to help children learn these skills early, and to become confident readers early on, as the more they read and write, the more they will discover

about the code, as well as about the meaning of the whole words.

They need to be able to do what ‘readers’ so when they scan words ie the code changes as they decode from left to right, depending on how the word is

said orally. reindeer reinforce

Sometimes it changes in context The lead balloon wouldn’t rise.

The dog lead was hanging on the post.

look at a book spoon on a moon eight green frogs man in a pan

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