Why does Australia need BRICKS?

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they

are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash

outside. "That laundry is not very clean; she doesn't know how to wash correctly.

Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looks on, remaining

silent. Every time her neighbor hangs her wash to dry, the young woman makes

the same comments.

A month later, the woman is surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and

says to her husband: "Look, she's finally learned how to wash correctly. I wonder

who taught her this? " The husband replies, "I got up early this morning and

cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life... What we see when watching others depends on the clarity

of the window through which we look.

Be careful when making assumptions, especially about the most effective ways

to teach ALL children to read. Perhaps the way they learn is just fine, you just

need to change the way you see them, and teach them.

SSP aims to clean your windows.

BRICKS Teaching; honouring differences, personalising learning. Phonemic Awareness, Vocab Knowledge and Phonics to Fluency and Comprehension

Program

Too many are unintentionally viewing the teaching of reading and

spelling through dirty windows.

We need to understand learning differences, and honour them.

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Laying solid foundations, and knowing when to stop just patching.

How useful would it be if children could see all spelling variations for each speech sound, on your wall?

..and that they could ‘see’ the the speech sound pics™ in print!

• float f/l/oa/t

• happy h/a/pp/y

• phone ph/o-e/n - phone

• frog f/r/o/g

• pasta p/a/s/t/a

• lagging l/a/gg/i/ng

• Cheese ch/ee/se

• Fridge f/r/i/dge

RWI cards used throughout the SSP Approach

SSP Blue Level Sound Pic Sandwich (split digraph)

Speech Sound Clouds used to show all spelling variations for the speech sounds