Join the Self-Teaching Word Mapping Movement. Guide Children to Map Words for Themselves. Make Phonics Easy!
For the first time, you'll know exactly how to help a child figure out unfamiliar words and learn to spell new ones in 60 seconds, whatever the word and regardless of their existing phonics knowledge. And they LOVE IT!
Show the Code
Instant Visual and Auditory Access to the English Pronunciation, Reading and Spelling Code for ALL Words.
Making Phonics Work For Every Child
Our word mapping technology helps you see exactly how speech and print connect, so you can provide the right support to each child in the moment. You can also map ANY word, so they can figure it out themselves.Children LOVE being able to figure out words independently!
Support reading and spelling in the way children enjoy and understand. No more spelling rules, silent letters, syllable division or other outdated pedagogy. The science has moved on. It's time phonics teaching did too. Word Mapping technology changes everything!
Through Dys-Code, we can screen three-year-olds for dyslexia risk and re-route dyslexia by showing the code through Speech Sound Mapping, long before they start school. Phonemies show the speech sounds they struggle to isolate, segment and blend, helping them make sense of the relationship between speech and print before they start school.
Sir Ken Robinson argued that education should be personalised, not standardised. That principle underpins the Word Mapping Mastery® ecosystem.
Every learner receives as much explicit phonics instruction as they need, and no more. The goal is not to explicitly teach every grapheme-phoneme correspondence or every word they will encounter. The goal is to provide enough knowledge of the Core Code to kick-start self-teaching.
Once learners can map words independently, they continue learning through reading, writing and meaningful language experiences. Technology delivers the constrained skills, freeing teachers to observe, assess and personalise learning, providing additional support only where and when it is needed.
"As much explicit instruction as they need, and no more." Show the Code: Join the Guided Self-Teaching (GST) Movement
Australian Reception teachers are now using Spelling Simplied with Silly Spello! Reception Teachers in England can also trial MyWordz® bidirectional word-mapping technology with the world's first phonetic keyboard to boost orthographic learning and make phonics easier to understand.
We show you how to map ALL words, so you can stop trying to explain English spelling and pronunciation
"Independent learning is made possible, not by better programmes but by better experiences"
Emma Hartnell-Baker
By making the complete bidirectional code visible, you are supporting the orthographic mapping and self-teaching processes that enable ALL children to move confidently between speech and print, store words in memory, and become independent readers and spellers.
Children in Reception are able to see which letters represent phonemes when words are mapped, and we can now do this automatically using word code mapping technology. We can, and should, Show the Code to map words in both directions: print to speech for reading, and speech to print for writing.
“The goal isn’t to teach as much about as many properties of print and language as time allows, appropriating more of the school day to get it all done. Rather, it is to enable the child to start acquiring the relevant knowledge as they engage in reading, writing, and spoken language activities.”
(Seidenberg, 2026)
Despite generations of educational theory and billions spent, around 1 in 4 children still fail to reach expected literacy levels after seven years in school, including in England where explicit, systematic phonics is mandated. For too long, parents and educators have been expected to explain how words are spelt and pronounced in English. For the first time, an alternative is available: every word of English can be mapped so that the code can be shown, not explained, and easily understood in the early years.
Learn how to map words bidirectionally and use MyWordz® technology throughout the day with the Show the Code Foundation Course.
Those selling dyslexic fonts often ignore the reality of what dyslexia is and can perpetuate the myth that it’s primarily a visual problem.
Code-mapped text, however, was designed with the research in mind.
We make all text decodable through our Show the Code approach, supporting the statistical learning needed to facilitate orthographic mapping.
Children can choose a Code Mapped® view that simply highlights which letters work together as graphemes. A free Lite version is available on here They can also add Phonemies®, our child-friendly phonetic symbols, which show the sound value of each grapheme.
Our Show the Code™ Speech Sound Mapping training is on this STC site, focusing on bidirectional word mapping.
It’s not a programme. Use the technology every day, at the point of need.
If you’re supporting children at risk of reading and spelling difficulties, you can guide self-teaching from speech to print and from print to speech.
Less teaching. More guided self-teaching.
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Show the Code™ with MyWordz®
When we Show the Code™ we are making the hidden code of English visible for all words, at the moment of need. By showing which letters work together as graphemes and what sounds they represent, children can read words they haven't seen before, spell words they want to write, and understand how spoken words connect to print.
Rather than being given isolated pieces of code and expected to work out the rest, children can see the complete code within words. This allows the brain to detect patterns, build connections, and store words more efficiently through orthographic mapping and statistical learning.
As children repeatedly see which letters are graphemes, and their sound value in words, which can be adapted for accents, they begin to recognise these patterns for themselves. The goal is not to teach any rules or strategies. The goal is for children to understand how speech maps to print so that the brain can store words and discover patterns naturally.
Learn to use the tech, so that you can guide your child or student to mastery the word mapping code for themselves.
By making the complete bidirectional code visible, we can (for the first time in history) show the code for every word, regardless of accent. This uniquely supports the orthographic mapping and self-teaching processes that enable children to move confidently between speech and print, store words in memory, and become independent readers and spellers.
It's time to stop saying children have learning differences or 'special needs' because they struggle with one-size-fits-all programmes. What if we decided to change the system instead? Join us. Not Reading Reform. Phonics Reform.
For a child to become a confident reader and speller, they need to understand how speech sounds (phonemes) and graphemes connect in both directions, what the words mean and be reading and writing as much as possible. If you want to support that process, you need to be confident with bidirectional word mapping. Stop asking children to "sound it out" (if they could, they would), or trying to explain written English. Just Show the Code. Understand why some can read, but struggle with spelling. Guided self-teaching makes orthographic word mapping far easier.
Spelling Simplieid: Show the Code. Yet anther use for the MySpeekie® Phonetic Keyboard!
This 60-second Spelling Routine strengthens phonemic awareness and bonds speech sounds, graphemes and meaning for instant word recognition and accurate spelling when writing. As words become securely stored in the orthographic lexicon, learners develop an internal reference for how words look. This means they are more likely to recognise when a word they have written does not look right and can self-correct without relying on memorisation or guessing. Learn how to help children do this when you register for the Foundation Course!
The benefit of telling them the word if they can't (yet) decode it, or writing the word when they can't yet spell it!
You can do this with any child, at any age or stage.
Remember, most of the correspondences they get stuck on may be correspondences they may never cover in the Core Code anyway.
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MyWordz®: Thought to Voice | Show the Code Technology
We developed Thought-to-Voice Technology with Innovate UK funding. MySpeekie® is the world's first one-screen AAC, designed for children who are non-speaking, use few words, or whose speech is difficult for others to understand. It requires no speech, reading or spelling to use, while supporting children to communicate, learn to read and learn to spell. The MyWordz® word-bank already contains over 20K words!
Phonemies (Speech Sound Monsters): Phonetic Symbols for Kids
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Learn more about orthographic word mapping so you can meet the needs of your individual child or students.
Show the Code is not a phonics programme or intervention. This word mapping training is designed to deepen your understanding of how words are mapped between speech and print for both reading and spelling, helping you make informed decisions about the support, teaching approaches and resources you use with individual learners. You will learn how to guide self-teaching of the reading and spelling code by supporting bidirectional word mapping at the time of need.
The Reading Hut® Ltd is the home of the Word Mapping Mastery® ecosystem, an integrated collection of educational approaches, publishing, assessment, professional development and technology designed to help children become confident, independent communicators, readers and spellers.
Our philosophy is simple. We want every learner to become a confident, independent communicator, reader and speller who reads for pleasure. We therefore provide as much explicit instruction and support as each learner needs, and no more, helping every learner develop the confidence and independence to continue learning through successful communication, reading and writing.