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Spelling Clouds

Self-teaching brains explore the full alphabetic code, not just the correspondences taught in explicit phonics lessons.

The Core Phonics Code is used to kick-start self-teaching.

The Monster Spelling Piano app
SSP Chants -  The C Core Code

Learn to blend and segment these GPCs quickly with the Monster Spelling Piano app for tablets. 

During explicit phonics instruction, children learn the grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) shown on the outside of the Spelling Clouds®. Through self-teaching, children explore the full alphabetic code via implicit learning.

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