Welcome to Speedie Readies, part of the Word Mapping Mastery system®. A self-teaching pathway for communication, reading and spelling. Join the Learning Corner and access the orthographically mapped Village With Three Corners book series online.
Over 100 engaging stories to build word mapping mastery and inspire a love of reading.
Speedie Readies
Screen early. Support early. Every child deserves to communicate, read and spell with ease. Early years SEN, SpLD and SLCN specialists supporting families from the start.
Speedie Readies start self-teaching and developing word mapping mastery quickly, within weeks not years, and build a lifetime of joyful reading.
How? We Show the Code with Phonemies. Unsure of the word mapping? Which letters are graphemes, and which phonemes they map to? Check the Tech. Simple. We make the English orthography visible to all.
Speedie Readies is part of the Word Mapping Mastery® system, from The Reading Hut®, designed to ensure every child can map words efficiently and move into the self-teaching phase as quickly as possible. Children are shown the word code, as and when needed for that indvidual child. They are supported to store speech sounds, spelling, and meaning in the orthographic lexicon, often described as the brain word bank. They explore a wide range of words, including hundreds of high frequency words, and read for pleasure early through the One, Two, Three and Away! series.
Access the books here on the Speedie Readies website.
This is bidirectional word mapping with the aim of preventing the dyslexia paradox, every child reading by 7, while also better supporting older children who are not thriving. Speedie Readies training shows how to understand what individual learners need, rather than how to follow a one-size-fits-all programme. Support is offered to members by Emma Hartnell-Baker "The Word Mapper" and the team. Start learning the language of Word Mapping here.
In classroom settings across Australia, Reception teachers use the 10 Day Speech Sound Play Plan alongside the Speech Sound Pics approach. See SpeechSoundPics.com. This approach involves less direct teaching and more supported self-teaching. With 25 or more children, this can be challenging, but we do it in a unique way. This is not a synthetic phonics programme. Instead, the core code is taught using a visual and linguistic word mapping approach designed to teach every child as if they are the 1 in 4 at risk from day 1, even if they are not.
Speedie Readies shows how easy reading and accurate spelling can be achieved on a 1:1 basis, for example at home, with a TA in school, or when working with a tutor. This ensures every child learns to read and spell with precise word mapping support. Ask about our Ten Minutes a Day, With a TA support model. This includes whole class dyslexic risk screening in term 1, followed by 1:1 support that runs alongside the classroom programme. Children do not miss any whole-class phonics instruction using the school-selected programme. Training is included in the £10 per month membership for individuals.
Please also explore the Speedie Spelling System, available for whole-class or 1:1 use at MappedWords.com, where children learn The Spelling Routine using Mapped Words®. The Spelling Routine with Mapped Words® is a free routine used to support dyslexic learners and children who struggle with high-frequency words often called sight words, including statutory spelling words for England. It is demonstrated in short word-mapping videos on MappedWords.com, which is its canonical home.
Children read more easily when the One, Two, Three and Away! series is introduced early. Our code mapping algorithm and Phonemies® make the structure of each word visible, so they can begin reading now and developing word mapping mastery instead of waiting for each part of the code to be taught.
When I taught Reception, all but one or two children were avid readers before Year 1. What was missing for the few who didn’t make that early progress? They needed activities that build strong phonemic awareness so they can hear the sounds in words, and they needed to be shown how those sounds connect to the letters.
Speedie Readies brings all of this together and gets children reading quickly and easily because the speech to print code is visible, the stories are engaging and the foundations are secure.
Emma Hartnell-Baker, MEd SEN. The Reading Whisperer®
⭐ Speedie Readies: We show the code with IPA aligned Phonemies so every child can learn to communicate, read and spell with ease, because speech and print are connected for them in a clear and simple way, so that using written words to convey meaning becomes the focus. The first 52 books in the One, Two, Three and Away! series are orthographically mapped, and children use the word-mapping technology whenever they need it after that. Speech, spelling and meaning are bonded, which facilitates orthographic mapping, with the books targeting fluency and comprehension.
Show the Code because phonics without Phonemies is like running a race in fog for children who screen as high risk for dyslexia.
Speedie Reading, Spelling, and Universal (IPA-Aligned) Pronunciation of English Words that Support ALL Leaners
⭐ Train with me and I’ll support you to get all children excited about word mapping, so they can read and spell without difficulty.
Emma Hartnell-Baker, MEd SEN Expert in preventing the Dyslexia Paradox
Speech Sound Play lays the speech sound processing foundations needed to map speech to print.
You can then continue with the Speech Sound Pics Approach in the neurodiverse classroom setting, or use Speedie Word Mapping to develop Word Mapping Mastery® here on a 1:1 basis.
Speedie Word Mapping includes Speedie Spelling and Speedie Readies, supporting self-teaching, confident reading, and accurate spelling through orthographic mapping made visible via word mapping with Speech Sound Monsters - We are Monster Mapping! MyWordz® offers a full 'show the word code' mapping tech system and includes MySpeekie® - type words in speech sounds (Phonemies) to see the spelling.
Ask your local library to stock the Village With Three Corners Series!
They are published by The Reading Hut Ltd and libraries can order them through Gardners
Get in touch if you need help with that.
Speedie Orthographic Mapping: Show the Word Code with Speech Sound Monsters® (The Phonemies Family)
Monster Mapping® supports individual children to self-teach reading and spelling with speed and ease by showing children how speech and print connect for ALL English words, from birth. Less teaching, more self-teaching.
Some children will learn to read without needing a systematic phonics programme at school, if the right foundations are put in place early. When children are supported in the early years to notice speech sounds, understand how spoken words link to print, and build word knowledge through meaningful routines, reading can become self-teaching before school even begins. This does not happen by chance. It is about giving children what fluent readers naturally acquire, from birth, so that when they encounter print, reading develops with ease rather than effort. Parents play a crucial role in creating these conditions long before formal instruction starts.
Speedie Readies is a world-first system designed to support bidirectional word mapping at scale. It uniquely combines pre-mapped books, a speech–print mapping algorithm, and training that shows adults how to respond differently to different learners. The system helps children become self-teaching readers and spellers by making the link between speech, spelling, and meaning visible.
We are not explicitly teaching multiple graphemes and hoping children will somehow work out the rest for themselves. Too many children do not. Instead, we make the full code visible in books so children can teach themselves through reading and spelling.
Speedie Readies shows parents, tutors, and teachers how to help children map speech sounds to spelling, supporting independence in both reading and spelling. The training explains what separates children who learn to read and spell with ease, often with little explicit teaching, from those who will struggle if all they receive is a phonics programme limited to a small set of correspondences, high-frequency words, and decodable readers. For many children, that is not enough.
Parents need to understand which group their child is in, ideally before any formal teaching of reading and spelling begins. This is not linked to intelligence. Around 1 in 5 children start school at high risk of struggling to learn to read and spell without specific one-to-one support in Reception and KS1. This happens regardless of how often parents read to them or how articulate they are.. It is much harder once a child has already experienced difficulty, as disengagement can set in quickly. If a child has been taught but is struggling, Speedie Readies is designed to ensure that anyone with a positive connection to the child can help get them back on track and interested again. However, parents and tutors are asked to complete the training first, so shared concepts and language are in place and time is not spent repeating foundational explanations.
Learning to read and spell is grounded in decades of research into speech processing, memory, and word learning. While there are well-established developmental principles underpinning how children acquire written language, the support required varies according to the child. Some children arrive with strong phonemic awareness and can readily segment and manipulate speech sounds. Others do not, and without explicit support to build this foundation, they are unlikely to move into self-teaching through reading and spelling alone.
A child with strong phonemic awareness does not need the same level of support to isolate, segment, and blend sounds. A child who already recognises some graphemes does not need extended work on the core code and can move quickly into the pre-readers, often after a short period playing with the Monster Spelling Piano app and learning the monster sounds. Children who can decode reasonably well and read phonics books also need to move into the readers as soon as possible, as they need to see the full code and learn strategies such as re-coding a word initially inferred from context or syntax.
Emma Hartnell-Baker (Miss Emma) is known for identifying the most efficient pathway into reading and spelling for children who have not yet begun formal learning, including very young children, and for pinpointing what is blocking progress for children who have already been taught. She shows teachers, tutors, and parents how to do this using her unique talk-aloud approach, explaining in real time what she is noticing, what decisions she is making, and why.
Those who attend the training can join a private support group and share short clips of their children engaging in activities. Miss Emma, the Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer®, provides personalised feedback not only on what the child needs next, but also on how the adult can better support learning. This level of real-time analysis and responsive guidance is not offered elsewhere. You can stay in the group for as long as you need.
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"Ten Minutes a Day, With a TA! Word Mapping Mastery starts with Speech Sound Play."
Speedie Readies with Phonemies is implemented across the primary school by a teaching assistant, no prior training required.
⭐ We show the code so every child can learn to speak, read and spell with ease.
Speedie Readies Reading Corner brings together phonics, speaking, listening, and comprehension to make learning to read joyful.
During the Ten Minutes a Day Speedie Readies session, children master the phonics programme content that’s tested at the end of Year 1 using the Monster Spelling Piano app. This is a £14.99 one-time purchase.
They explore speech-to-print and learn with little explicit instruction. A TA can do this on a 1:1 with children from term 2 of Reception.
They learn to decode and encode, to facilitate self-teaching.
They also master reading fluency and comprehension with the 100 readers, where children learn to read, not just decode, and become avid readers as they explore The Village With Three Corners.
The first 52 books are orthographically mapped and we show the code. If you’re unsure, check the tech. Access them in the Reading Corner for £10 per month.
Children start these books (from Pre-Reader 1) once they’ve mastered the Green and Purple Code Levels. While exploring the books, they complete the other two Core Code Levels. This is a quick, child-centred way to ensure that every child with the intellectual capacity to read can do so well before the end of Year 1. It’s far easier to prevent the Dyslexia Paradox than to intervene later under the existing Wait to Fail approach.
Start the Monster Spelling Piano before age three. Speech Sound Mapping targets the phonological processing differences linked to dyslexia, promoting alternative neural routes that support successful reading acquisition.
Show the Code : Every Child Mapping Words to Read and Spell QUICKLY and easily!
Unsure? Check the Word Mapping Tech.
Suitable for toddlers and non-speaking children, and life-changing for neurodivergent learners and those screened as at high risk of dyslexia.
Dyslexia risk screening in Reception, with prevention to avoid the intervention. Ten Minutes a Day, With a TA. No training required and low cost, with huge benefits for every child. Prevent the dyslexia paradox. No more waiting to fail. Visit DyslexiaParadox.com.
We are also running a Speedie Spelling pilot for children with dyslexia in KS2
Research in cognitive neuroscience has shown that the brain’s capacity to form the neural connections linking speech, print, and meaning is greatest before the age of seven. We can prevent reading and spelling difficulties, but by eight it is too late. At that point, prevention is no longer possible and remediation is required. This is not the child’s fault. It is a missed opportunity.
Help us support class teachers, push back against wait-to-fail policies and roll out Speedie Readies in Reception and Year 1. Ten minutes a day for a few weeks with an awesome TA is all that’s needed. Upstream screening and support is quicker, cheaper, and far more effective than remediation later on. And children LOVE the 100+ stories! They don't just feel proud of being able to read easily; they experience the true joy of reading for pleasure.
The Early Dyslexia Screening Centre was launched to shine a spotlight on the power of upstream screening.
Ask about Speedie Readies sessions with SpLD specialist Emma Hartnell-Baker.
Join as a Member of the Reading Corner and easily teach your child to read and spell before they start school, or support them if they are not quite getting it in the classroom. I also offer a limited number of private face-to-face sessions at the Early Dyslexia Screening Centre in West Parley.
This is also a powerful and affordable way for a teaching assistant to meet the word mapping needs of the one in four children who currently leave primary school unable to read and spell. TAs have the flexibility to provide one-to-one support, and the process itself trains them to understand English orthography in a way that months of traditional training cannot achieve. Miss Emma, The Neurodivergent Reading Whisperer®
Children who learn to map words early achieve Word Mapping Mastery quickly and learn to read with confidence.
Speedie Readies: Preventing the Dyslexia Paradox. An initiative from The Early Dyslexia Screening Centre.
The Speedie Readies system embraces linguistic and neurodiversity so that every child can find joy and confidence in reading.
Speech Sound Mapping targets the phonological processing differences linked to dyslexia, promoting alternative neural routes that support successful reading acquisition.
Call to action
Miss Emma can guide you and your child towards becoming Speedie Readies through face-to-face sessions at the Early Dyslexia Screening Centre in West Parley. Early Years Providers can also attend training to bring these preventative practices into their settings.
We also ask you to encourage your local library to stock the One, Two, Three and Away! books and accompanying teacher handbook so that every child has the opportunity to read for pleasure and experience the joy of language from the very beginning.
01202 082330
1:1 Support for Speedie Readies at The Early Dyslexia Screening Centre
