Unlocking the Secrets of Phonics for Our Learners!
Help me give my students these awesome secret stories to unlock literacy skills!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Thurley's classroom raised $344
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Project
Secret Stories is a brain-based approach to traditional phonics instruction that accelerates learner access to the reading and writing code. Secret Stories provides the logical explanations for letter sound behavior that learners' brains crave. These logical explanations are shared in the form of “secret” stories, which are the secret reasons why letters make all of the crazy sounds that they do when they get together in words. The “Secrets” work seamlessly with any reading series or phonics program, fitting snugly between the teaching of reading and writing.
Regardless of text level, there’s virtually no word that kids can’t crack when they know the Secrets.
Aligning complex phonics skills to familiar concepts that learners already understand enables struggling readers to gain power over text quickly. Within this familiar context, inexperienced readers can predict the most and next most likely sound behaviors of letters in the text as easily as they would the most likely behaviors of their friends and classmates.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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