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Phonics Reform England: Not reading reform. Phonics reform. Improving phonics for the one in five at risk of struggling to read and spell.
Graphemes shown in words
For 1 in 5 children at risk of dyslexia, phonics books are not fully decodable.
One way to address this is to show which letters function as graphemes within words by code mapping them. Use the Lite version here to see mapped words.
Within MyWordz® technology, Innovate UK Funded, users can download the processed text and adjust the font, size, and layout as needed.
We urge you to make books more decodable for at-risk children from the start.
Single click to see which letters are graphemes.
Hear the sounds and the word.
This means that children are shown the mapping of any word, so prior knowledge of phoneme–grapheme correspondences doesn’t matter.
This boosts self-teaching, and is life-changing for dyslexic students.
Examples of the “even more decodable” readers we use in Australia, especially for the 1 in 5 children identified as high risk of dyslexia during our 10-day pre-phonics Speech Sound Play Plan at the start of Reception. The four 'Code Levels' align with the old DfE Letters and Sounds programme. Children can see the graphemes in these Phonics Books. Every word is segmented into graphemes, and each grapheme is shown as a complete unit across the word. The alternating colours have no link to 'vowel sounds', they simply mark the boundaries between graphemes so the structure can be seen immediately. There are no 'silent letters' / unused graphemes. This aligns with the principles underpinning the alphabetic code, where every letter is part of a grapheme and represents a phoneme (and sometimes two). We can help you map the texts you use at school! Just reach out.
