Making the connections between spoken and written English visible so that the code of English orthography makes sense to every brain, at any age.
No endless phonics lessons. No memorising spelling rules. Just showing how speech and print connect, unlocking self-teaching. The goal? Reading for pleasure!
We support speech and language therapists, teachers, parents and caregivers who want to help children understand how spoken and written English connect, without prescribing how phonics or spelling should be taught.
Our aim is to make bidirectional word mapping accessible to everyone, so adults can SHOW the Code in the words children encounter, rather than needing to explicitly teach hundreds of grapheme–phoneme correspondences.
In many cases, extensive explicit instruction won't be necessary. Children's brains are remarkably good at discovering how spoken and written English connect when those connections are made visible.
Training: Word Mapping Mastery®
Our Word Mapping Mastery® Training System develops adults' understanding of the mathematics of bidirectional word mapping. It helps teachers, therapists and other professionals understand WHY words are mapped as they are and HOW to calculate the connections between speech and print.
The training develops specialist knowledge. It does not prescribe how professionals should teach the learners they know best.
Register for training at WordMappingMastery.com.
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MyWordz® Technology: Show the Code
Our Show the Code technology, including MyWordz®, makes bidirectional word mapping accessible at the point of need.
Powered by Ortho-GraphiX®, our underlying bidirectional word-mapping algorithm, the technology shows which individual letters or groups of letters form the graphemes (the written representations of speech sounds) and which phonemes they represent, in both directions: print to speech for reading and speech to print for spelling.
Our Word Mapping Mastery® training helps teachers, speech and language therapists, parents and caregivers understand these connections, why they matter and how to support learners in developing independent reading and spelling skills.
The technology makes the code visible, while the training develops the knowledge and confidence to use it effectively.
Show the Code. Unlock Self-Teaching.
Phonics Reform England: Changing HOW Phonics Is Taught
Through Phonics Reform England, we advocate for improvements in the quality and consistency of phonics teacher training, with a greater focus on bidirectional word mapping and unlocking self-teaching.
We aren't campaigning against phonics. We want to change HOW it is taught.
Rather than focusing primarily on delivering a prescribed sequence of correspondences, we want teachers to understand how speech and print connect in both directions, how children develop self-teaching skills, and when explicit instruction is actually needed.
As much explicit instruction as each learner needs, and no more.
