FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION & INTERVENTION
Multisensory Phonics That Reaches Every Learner
Secret Stories® pairs visual mnemonics, music, and movement so students with IEPs get multiple pathways to the same phonics skill. No shame, no endless drilling, just access.
- Multisensory by design: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic in every lesson
- Story-based logic gives struggling decoders a reason letters act the way they do
- IDEA and Title funding eligible, with ESSA Level 1 evidence behind it
Built for the students who need a different way in
Students on IEPs have usually been taught the same phonics rules several times already. Repeating them louder or slower rarely changes the outcome, because the barrier is not effort or exposure, it is that abstract rules give a struggling learner nothing to hold onto.
Secret Stories® works through a different channel. Each pattern arrives as a story with a character, a motion and a reason, which is multisensory by design rather than by adaptation. For students who need repetition, visual support and a memory hook, that combination is often what finally makes the code accessible.
Use it in resource, push-in or self-contained
The same materials work in a pull-out group of four and a co-taught classroom of twenty-eight. Nothing needs modifying between settings.
Teach one Secret at a time, as slowly as needed
There is no pace to keep up with. Students who need three weeks on one pattern get three weeks, and the poster stays up as a permanent reference.
Give them something to reach for independently
The goal is a student who stops waiting for an adult. When they start whispering the story to themselves while sounding out a word, that is independence you can document.
I have been using secret stories for one year in my Sped. Resource class. My students were constantly on the hunt for stories! My absolute favorite was when they started to connect the stories in reading bigger words and you could hear them quietly saying the story as they sounded out the word. The confidence they gained was the real success. They realized they can read!!
Common questions
Does this align with structured literacy?
Can it support IEP goals?
Is it appropriate for older students who read below grade level?
What about students with significant memory difficulties?
How many students does one kit serve?
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