Prep SSP Structure - Literacy Planning from Week 4

Speech Sound Pics (SSP) Approach ~ MySpeedySSP.com ~ Wiring Brains Education ~ Copyright 2014
SSP Prep Lesson Format for Week 4 and onwards. (Teachers have led up to this within Wks 1- 3, covering SSP Orange and Green)
Program Developer: Emma Hartnell-Baker BEd Hons. MA (Special Educational Needs) former UK OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) Inspector.
With thanks to Sue Brown MEd (Broadbeach State School) for Guidance Regarding Information Display.
Please refer to separate guidance regarding SSP Orange and Green Levels in pre-school. This is a new standalone program, to prepare students for Prep,
and links with the Early Years Learning Framework, and Quality Standards.
Time Lesson elements Notes
8.45am –
9am
Self selected reading
Parents welcome.
Children read from their SSP Box or home reader either individually or preferably with an
adult. The children also change their home reader (using the coloured box) There is also a
Pot Luck Bucket, with books of interest, chosen from library.
9am-
9.30am
Roll and morning routine (weather
etc)
Power point
Go through Speech Sound to Sound Pic Link video with phrases, drawing the sound pics in
the air (holding pens/ pencils) after visualising ~ 4 minutes long ~ until no longer needed.
http://youtu.be/JiSl7wIOXk0
There is a different PowerPoint each day. Each will focus on a specific skill each day.
Day 1 speech sound to sound pic links- phrases
These cards are used to help the child learn the speech sound linked with that sound pic,
at that level, and this is why we use the phrase and image. The phrases do not need to
change, even if at times (outside of SSP) you are promoting a specific handwriting style.
Day 2 - sound pic recognition – including level above current working level.
Day 3- critical thinking / oral language/ higher order thinking
Day 4 -helpful words / introduce new vocab (Strive)
Day 5 hold a sentence – say it, write it, read it, check it. Includes grammar and punctuation
checks.
9.30am-
10am
Table Top and Floor activities:
Table 1: Phonemic awareness and encoding (use
the visual prompt cards- they see it, say it, duck
hands, lines, numbers, make their sound pic
Children move to another table/ floor when they finish an activity. They should complete
the 5 main activities every week. They may start on a new table each day, and then go to
floor activities when finished. This may make organisation easier, as each child knows
which table to go to each day (if table 3 yesterday, table 4 today)
This also means that you can extend floor/ alternative activities to differentiate and
enhance learning experiences still further, for each student.

choices)
Table 2: Sound pic recognition at their level (they
take out the card for their level and say them all,
and write them) Find the sound pics in the books.
Record on whiteboard. Read the books.
Table 3: - Follow the sounds, say the word
(decoding) – their level. They can do this orally,
and also write the words. Place Green Level Rap
cards on this table.
Table 4: Helpful/Magic 440words- coded. The
children follow the sounds, say the word- so they
see how they are built (even though above their
SSP coding level). They practice writing them.
Table 5: - Writing for a purpose (short piece of
personal writing)
An adult( preferably a teacher-aide) needs to sit
with this table.
Sentence construction at their SSP Code Level
(card prompts etc)
Floor activities:
Speedy Decoding in pairs (one decodes, the other
says the word) children work with other children
at their level.
A range of other activities can be put out on the
floor- eg the floor mat game- snap, bingo etc.
Use tablets, with Pocket Phonics/ SSP app.
Set up SSP videos on laptops.
The children tick the activities they did on a wall chart (laminated, and wiped off weekly.)
The children tick the chart as this helps them take ownership, and also helps them to
become more organised.
Take a photo each Friday, to add to running records.
The teacher, for the most part, is the ‘conductor’ and oversees everything. She watches
that all children are on task, and organises helpers. Ideally, parents, carers and
grandparents or volunteers are involved- one per table.

Product Bucket- Speech Sound Detective
Pot Luck Bucket (books to look through, explore,
listen to eg older student reads to them. If
possible, children bring in books they chose from
library with parents)
Carefully observe students, and refer to skills acquisition charts so that you know when a
student needs to move up an SSP Code Level, and when they need extra help acquiring a
skill.
As part of data collection/ record keeping, please use SSP Speeding Screening Tools, and
Ongoing Assessment ‘Tick and Flick’ sheets.
Green – Purple- Yellow - Blue
10.10am –
10.35am
Posters
Children sit at desks and follow the posters as a whole group.
These cover (all levels) ;
Spelling/ Phonemic Awareness (say it, use Duck Hands, draw lines, number them- no
letters)
Sound pic recognition (say it, draw it.)
Speedy decoding (follow the sounds, say the word)
Linking phrases with sound pics
Chants at their level
High frequency word recognition/Magic 100
Speed Reading – Sentences.
Adult Directed Activities to follow;
Teacher writes a word on the board, say the word, student copy it and then work out the
speech sound to sound pic links (underline and number)
Teacher asks the class to spell a word using the SSP Spelling Strategy;
Say it, use Duck Hands (agree on number as a class) draw lines, number them, make
choices. Refer to Spelling Clouds (put on walls, and introduce student to keyrings)

10.35am –
11am
Teachers can self-select here, depending on curriculum demands.
Finish with Silly Rhyme Time.
SSP Sound Pic Strips
Every child needs these strips. They can be used at school or home so that parents can check their sound pic recognition at home, and build words with
them.
RWI strips and Numbers 1- 10 needed for each table. ‘k’ replaced with this one

Comprehension Checks
Comprehension activities will also be included – questions at end of each SSP reader, and will be added for all Green and Purple level books. The Fitzroy
readers used in Yellow level. These have been ordered. See attached documents on them. PM readers will be sorted into Yellow and Blue buckets to make
use of resources you already have. Do not PM Benchmark until the students reach SSP Yellow- Blue.

Basic SSP Resources Overview
Phonics teaching sequence (explicit)

Student Posters (Prep)
.

Inquiry Learning also takes place within all SSP sessions, regardless of Code Level.
Students spell unfamiliar words, and refer to the Spelling Clouds for likely choices. Students problem solve, rather than try to learn how to read or spell words
by memory, or as sight words. All 440 Magic Words have been decoded for SSP students.
See Year 2 students decoding ‘said’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbcEHPwXK_E
As students using SSP are exposed to so many written words, every day, within the environment, books, through poems and songs, they quickly see which
words ‘look right.’ Oral language, including vocabulary knowledge, also brings it all together. Students play Speech Sound Detective, to find links they were
unaware of, using familiar objects – eg cereal boxes, chip packets, wall signs.
Spelling ‘fish’ for the first time?
Say the word (fish)
Use Duck Hands to orally split the word into speech sounds (not syllables) V V V
Draw a line for each speech sound _ _ _
Number the lines (segmenting) 1 2 3
Make your choices.
Even if they spell the word ‘fish’ they still refer to the spelling clouds, to see other ways to represent these speech sounds.

The Spelling Clouds are all on the walls (these are ordered in A4 or A3) and sold as keyrings. There is a poem for 47 speech sounds.

Sound Pic Cards have sound pics on one side, and visual prompts on the other. This means that they know which speech sound the sound pic represents. Ie
does ‘y’ represent the speech sound as in happy, fly or yellow? This helps when spelling, and also speedy decoding unfamiliar words. The more choices they
know, the quicker they will work out the word.
See ‘follow the sounds, say the word’ skills in Year 2 (Broadbeach State School) after 8 weeks of SSP.
These students confidently decode words they have never heard of, and do not know the meaning of, because of the skills acquisition, scaffolding approach.
eg as shown in the Burt Reading Test.
SSP Yellow Level Student https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4A_L9fOOww
SSP Yellow Level Student https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYJsklsxm4
SSP Blue Level Student https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQuyIocB86M
SSP Blue Level Student https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyqrOvv2LfU

Daily reading at their SSP Code Level (which includes comprehension and higher order thinking) is vital, if all Prep students are to read independently within 4
terms.
See SSPReaders.com for suggested books, for each SSP Reading Bucket.
For example – SSP Readers for Green and Purple / Pocket Rocket Readers for Green – Purple- Yellow / Fitzroy Readers for Yellow and Blue/
Dandelion for Green, Purple, Yellow, Blue.
Daily writing at their SSP Code Level (writing words created using the sound pics they are focusing on, plus helpful words) is also vital, in addition to
independent ‘have a go’ writing.
Emergent writing is encouraged at all times throughout the day, eg while playing in the ‘shop corner.’
Refer to Screening and Assessment Guides.
Prep screening for dyslexia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3Ss7bn_4g
135 children screened in less than 50 minutes.
Every student assessed twice a term, or when ready to move up a level (to confirm)
PM Benchmarked only when they are reading at an SSP Code Level of Yellow or Blue.
All resources, including whiteboard lessons and power points, accessed as a whole school licence – www.ReadAustralia.com – or by tutors/ parents/ learning support as a
separate basic SSP resources site – www.MySpeedySSP.com
Free SSP Code Level Reading – www.SSPReaders.com - over 300 ereaders available through the site, as Oxford Owl readers have been sorted into SSP Code Levels.
Recommended additional resources – Pocket Phonics app – ABC Phonics
SSP Apps – for ipad (Speech Sound Piano- launched June 2014)
Order pre-loaded tablets (Android) from the SSP Shop. $139 or $199 plus GST per tablet.
Questions? info@ReadAustralia.com
Wiring Brains Education (Office Hours 9.15 – 2.30 Tuesday to Friday)
Shop 10, Hope Island Central
340 Hope Island Road. Hope Island.
Gold Coast. QLD. Australia 4212
Ph 07 5510 9960
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