Link to Presentation, created by Lisa Collier Heart Words & Orthographic Mapping * Students should be taught to map these orthographically, each of the phonemes or word parts can be linked to part of the English code. * Students learn the codes of spelling through exposure and explicit teaching. * Teaching students the code allows for students to learn most efficient and effective brain patterns for reading. * Don't teach students to visualise or memorise these words. Teach them to decode. It is useful to alert them to the shape their mouths are making when they say each sound part. * Students with dyslexia need more exposure, repetition and careful, planned teaching of the sound parts. * Orthographic mapping involves the student using the oral language processing part of their brain to map (connect) the sounds of words they already know (the phonemes) to the letters in a word (the spellings). They then permanently store the connected sounds and letters of words (along w...