FOR PRE-K, KINDERGARTEN & EARLY LITERACY
Give Beginning Readers the Secrets Letters Keep
Little learners do not need more drills. They need stories. Secret Stories® teaches letter sounds the way young brains learn everything else: through characters, songs, and play.
- The Better Alphabet Song teaches all letter sounds in as little as 2 weeks
- Embedded mnemonics mean kids see the story inside every letter pattern
- Built for the social-emotional centers young brains actually learn with
For children who arrive without letters, sounds, or a head start
Plenty of children begin Kindergarten having never held a book. They are asked to learn twenty-six letter names, twenty-six sounds, and then the far larger set of patterns those letters make together, in a single year, often while learning how school works at the same time.
Abstract rules do not survive that. Stories do. Secret Stories® turns each pattern into something concrete and visual, so a child who cannot yet hold a rule in working memory can still hold a character and a reason. That is what lets early readers move from letter naming to actually decoding.
Start with the Better Alphabet™ song
Letter sounds come first, taught through song and motion rather than drill. It takes minutes a day and gives every child the same starting point regardless of what they arrived knowing.
Add Secrets as readers are ready
You do not teach all of them. You introduce a Secret the first time it blocks a child, which means instruction follows the readers in front of you rather than a calendar.
Let them find the Secrets everywhere
Early readers begin pointing them out in the hallway, on the cereal box, in a friend's name. That transfer out of the lesson is the point, and it is where the growth shows up.
Many of my kindergarteners do not attend PreK, and most begin kinder without knowing any letters or sounds. Secret Stories turns something that can be abstract and confusing into a concrete, visual resource. My readers that were struggling leave at the end of the year recognizing the secret stories in their books, at the store, and are truly unlocking the world around them.
Common questions
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