Applying the Science of Reading through the Brain’s Backdoor™
Using Neuroscience to Deliver Phonics Faster
Ever wonder why letters make the many different sounds that they do? Secret Stories® are the “secret” reasons WHY letters get together and make the sounds that they do in words. They provide logical explanations for letter sound behavior that a child’s brain craves. Rooted in the science of reading and cognitive neuroscience research, Secret Stories® targets early developing and already primed neural pathways by aligning “letter behavior” to “kid behavior” to make phonics more predictable.
Secret Stories® is NOT a program, but simply mnemonic tools that work seamlessly alongside existing reading/ phonics curriculum to “speed-up” access to more of the phonics code kids need to read.
Secrets aren’t something you do, they’re something you use to make sense of what you’re already doing—like looking at words every day that students cannot read. This includes the words in the reading program that are often leaps and bounds ahead of the phonics skills that it’s teaching them. Using Secret Stories® to advance access to the code gives teachers a way to keep pace with students’ needs for daily reading and writing—and not just during the reading block, but in all content areas, across the entire instructional day.
No more “It just is. It just does. You just have to remember.”
Just tell them the Secret.
Science of Reading-Based Phonics Instruction
What is phonics and phonemic awareness?
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing that is based on the alphabetic principle—the understanding that letters represent sounds that form words. Phonics instruction requires developing learners’ phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sound patterns (phonemes) in order to teach the corresponding spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them. Read More
Is phonics important in learning to read?
Phonics is important in learning to read and write because letter-sound knowledge is the foundation needed to build up reading and writing abilities. Written language is like a code that kids must crack and phonics is the key to cracking it. Read More
When do kids learn phonics?
Kids learn phonics at the beginning grade levels, with the “traditional” path for phonics instruction often spanning multiple grade level years, from prekindergarten to second or even third grade. However, using neuroscience-based connections, we can deliver the phonics much faster. Read More
The Research
It’s amazing what kindergartners can read and spell when they have ACCESS to the code they NEED to do it!
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