This document provides teaching materials for the Speech Sound Pics method for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. It includes slides with pictures representing speech sounds, word lists to practice decoding, and songs teaching letter-sound correspondences. Activities include direct instruction, inquiry-based learning where students record findings, and speed decoding practice. The goal is for students to become familiar with representations of speech sounds to lay a foundation for reading.

1. Slides for Students
- ideal for whiteboards
Part 1 of 3

2. Speech Sound Pics™
Teaching reading, writing and spelling
ReadingTeacherTraining.com / Youtube.com/SoundPics
Emma@ReadAustralia.com

4. Order for Explicit Teaching of the Phonemes
(Speech Sound Pics)
RWI phonics flashcards
used to teach and reinforce
the sound pics
Children have their sound pics and sound pic words in SSP folders that can
go home each night, with phonics readers

5. Inquiry learning takes place
alongside your direct teaching
• Alongside systematic and direct teaching children
are also given opportunities to self-discover the
code, and record findings in their
Speech Sound Pics Album
Albums contain the
Speech Sound
Clouds. Start with
the clouds for
s,a,t,p,i,n

6. Your encoding (spelling) approach is always the same

7. Say the word (grass)
Listen for the speech sounds
____ _____ _____ _____
1 2 3 4
Imagine you are taking a picture of each of the
4 speech sounds with your speech sound camera
– what might each one look like?
Which sound pic shall we choose?
The children imagine they are taking pictures of the 4 speech sounds, and choose
sound pics (representations) When you talk about letters these are simply letters
of the alphabet – and also have their own name. So, yes, this is an ‘es’ but what speech
sound is it a picture of? It’s one (there are 8 or 9) of the pictures for the speech sound ‘ssss’

8. Find the sound pic. It must be
Sound Pic Detective Time !
Bring in objects for this activity, and explore the
print, to find sound pics (ideally lower case)
eg
This shows 2 sound
Another pics for this speech
sound pic sound!
for the eee
speech sound ! a-e and ai
The ‘oo’ in this
one must be the same
oo as in look !You can
You can record your findings in your SSP ALBUM
Teachers – one of the best ways to teach blue level sound pics is through self-discovery using
words they know, and through appropriate readers (ie seeing the sound pic in context)

9. Speech Sound Detectives in Action
• Video on youtube.com/soundpics

10. http://www.speld-sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=182

11. Teachers/ Parents - ‘helpful words’ list
How any words are added to their
folders after the first 11 depends
on the child.
As you progress, point out when the
child can now decode the words (as
the child learns more sound pics)
These are high frequency words, not
‘sight words’ – and most can be decoded
when the child has covered those sound
pics.

12. Following slides
are to use with children

13. speedy
. . __ . .

14. These are in print as created for QLD teachers
however it is far better to use pre-cursive eg t

15. green level
•s a t
sit ant tap
p i n
pan pin nap

16. s
sit
RWI phrase- slither down the snake

17. a
ant
RWI phrase - round the apple, up down the leaf

18. t
tap
RWI phrase- down the tower, across the tower

19. p
pan
RWI phrase- down his plait, up round his head

20. i
pin
RWI phrase- Down his body and dot for this head

21. n
nap
RWI phrase - down, Nobby, up over his net !

22. green level sound pics
s a t
sit ant tap
p i n
pan pin nap

24. s
sit
RWI phrase- slither down the snake

26. a

27. a
ant
RWI phrase - round the apple, up down the leaf

29. t

30. t
tap
RWI phrase- down the tower, across the tower

32. p

33. p
pan
RWI phrase- down his plait, up round his head

35. i
women

36. i
pin
RWI phrase- Down his body and dot for this head

37. n

38. n
nap
RWI phrase - down, Nobby, up over his net !

39. green level sound pics and sound pic words
s a t
sit ant tap
p i n
pan pin nap

41. read the sentences to the King
Pat sat in the tin
the ant sits in the pan
Pat is in the sand pit

42. Your teacher will point to a sentence –
draw the right picture!

43. slide from Green level decoding practice power point
Nat pants in the sand pit
Green Level sound pics
s a t p i n

44. Quickly write the word (or build using magnetic letters) Your teacher might ask you
to do this on your own or with a friend
Don’t forget
- say the word
- listen for the speech sounds
- draw the lines
- work out the sound pics
_ _ _
(teachers gives the words

45. SSP Songs showing all spelling variations
(sound pics) for that speech sound
(not just one letter)

46. I’m
Mad Sam
Lily wants him to smell
like roses instead 
NO! Seven
This isn’t your
song..

47. NO! Seven
a is a sound you’ll hear a lot
This isn’t your
song..
but not in tin or pin or cot
you’ll find it in the middle of a word
like pat
and also hat and mat and rat

48. I doubt that’s its a pterodactyl,
but better not leave him on the window sill
If you move in haste he might jump out,
if he squashes Dad’s tomatoes he’s bound
to SHOUT !
NO! Seven
This isnt your song..

49. We’re happy hopping - hop, hop, hop
We’re happy hopping - hop, hop, hop
We’re happy hopping - hop, hop, hop
Give us some music and we’ll never
stop !
NO! Seven
This isnt your
song..

50. Is it a true or is it a myth ?
Depends on who I am sitting with...
Mum says ‘enough’ – don’t be silly son!
But Grandma Flo she wants some fun 
Yes, yes, it’s a dragon
and he is flying !!
NO! Seven
This isnt your
song..

51. Nick is a gnat who’s keeps saying NO !
Why he does, I just don’t know
Perhaps he’s feeling grumpy, as his
nose is runny
Getting the flu just isn’t funny.
Poor Nick thinks he has pneumonia
NO! Seven
This isnt your song..

52. Speedy Green Decoding
(Find them easy? Ask someone to time you!)
sat pit
Santa it
in pit
nip pin clock
. . . ___
sit ant
tan tin
pan pants
Stan nap

53. Meet the Speech Sound Duck !
Watch on youtube.com/soundpics

54. Recap lesson
- all green level sound pics
Children confident with these are ready for the Purple Level

55. Go to youtube.com/soundpics for
Jolly Phonics songs for the
representation shown here.
Eg for ‘s’ (not all representations)
The SSP songs show all
representations, not just the one
being explicitly taught at that time.
Now go to part 2 of 3 for next levels