Secret Stories provide logical explanations for letter sound behavior that a child’s brain craves. Rooted in the science of reading and cognitive neuroscience, Secret Stories target early developing and already primed neural pathways for learning, aligning “letter behavior” to “kid behavior” to make phonics more accessible and predictable for all learners.
Secret Stories is NOT a program, but embedded mnemonic tools that are designed to work with existing reading or phonics curricula to “speed-up” access to code kids need to read.
Secret Stories aren’t something you do, they’re something you use to make sense of what you’re already doing—which is looking at words all day long that kids cannot read or write. This includes words in the reading program that are often leaps and bounds ahead of the phonics its teaching them. Secret Stories are the “just in time” phonics tools kids need to read these words NOW so they don’t have to memorize them.
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