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Welcome to Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping.com
A website dedicated to the development of automaticity and fluency with reading and spelling for all ages.
This site features ideas from professional developer, consultant, and author Kathryn Grace. Ms. Grace is best known as the originator of Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping (PGM) which she created in 1983 while teaching in her Vermont classroom. Her Phoneme Grapheme mapping process has influenced countless literacy professionals and has been instrumental in helping students of all ages better understand the alphabetic principle, the knowledge that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters (graphemes) and spoken sounds (phonemes).
The sequential, systematic, and explicit lessons in her acclaimed and influential book, Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, are a direct outcome of her experience teaching young students and incorporate best practice based on empirical research. Its multisensory elements help to bridge the brain’s phonological and orthographic processors to strengthen learning and recall.
I have been looking forward to this publication for a long time. In the LETRS professional development manuals, I presented the ideas around which Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping was developed, hoping that every teacher would soon be able to obtain this outstanding instructional tool.
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Reading Instruction: A Historical Timeline
1700s–Mid-1800s: Children are taught to read through memorization of the alphabet, practice with sound-letter correspondences, and spelling lists. The prevailing texts used for teaching reading...
The Role of Orthographic Mapping in Learning to Read and Spell
“Orthographic mapping is a brain activity that involves parts of the brain connecting graphemes and phonemes within words.” (Ehri 2022) Orthographic maps are set...
Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping
I created Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping in 1983 to help students (and teachers) understand the reality that the number of sounds (phonemes) they hear in a...
Foreword from Louisa Moats
Excerpt from Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, by Kathryn E. S. Grace “I have been looking forward to this publication for a long time....
Press Release, Really Great Reading
We have some exciting news to share. Really Great Reading has added another dedicated practitioner, professional developer, consultant and author to our collaborative team. ...