Decoding Sight Words with Phonics Secrets for Reading - Part 1 | Secret Stories®

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PreK - 3rd, Homeschool

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Spelling, Reading Strategies, Phonics

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I love these flashcards with the secrets on them. They are especially helpful for heart words! They are very small and I find them most useful to use with small groups during response to intervention time.

— Nanette T.

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I love using all the secret stories resources with my students. This resource helps students realize the parts of sight words and how to decode them. It also helps them realize heart word parts.

— Holly K.

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NOTE: This product does NOT include the Secret Stories® book, posters or musical download OR the Secretable® Digital Stickers product. All sound images used in this product are embedded into the words (in pdf format) to help decode their sounds. (Editable templates ARE included for the books, cards and clouds for use with your own words.)

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ABOUT THIS PRODUCT:
*Note: This product pairs perfectly with:

Decoding Sight Words PART 2
Decoding Sight Words INTERACTIVE Add-On

Teach kids to strategize, not memorize with activities for decoding sight words with phonics secrets for science based reading instruction!

Did you know that for experienced readers, virtually EVERY word is a sight word? That’s because the definition of a sight word is ANY WORD that is recognized by sight, meaning that it has already been “orthographically mapped” in the brain. For beginning and struggling readers, the transfer of unfamiliar words into sight memory should be the ultimate goal, but NOT through rote memorization of so-called “sight word lists.”

Rather, kids need to actively decode them, and to do this, they need to know more than just the individual letter sounds. They need to know ALL of the sounds letters make when they get together—something that often takes 3-4 grade level years, from prek-3rd grade. Not only is that WAY TOO LONG to make kids wait for the “whole” phonics code they need to read and write, but it’s also the reason that kids have to memorize so many words in K-2…because they haven’t yet learned the phonics skills needed to read them!

Enter Secret Stories®....
The Secrets explain the sounds letters make when they get together in words, with posters to help kids remember for independent reading and writing—making for the ideal “SOUND WALL!” The Secrets aren’t skills, they’re just stories that kids ALREADY know, based on behaviors they ALREADY understand. With the Secrets, kids don’t have to MEMORIZE words, they can just READ them….even in kindergarten!

The purpose of this packet is to demonstrate how “sight words” are actually just like ANY other word, and that if kids know the Secrets, they can just READ them!
Teach kids to strategize, not memorize with activities for decoding sight words with phonics secrets for science based reading instruction. Activities are designed to spotlight the connections between Secret Stories® phonics patterns and high-frequency sight words, using embedded sound graphics to “show” the sounds of the letters to help kids read and spell. These activities provide structured practice and reinforcement of Secret Story phonics patterns and sounds through decoding and encoding phonemes and graphemes to help support orthographic mapping in the brain.

While the first 100 Dolch and Fry Words are used as examples in this pack, blank templates have been provided so that you can make your own words and completely restructure the activity level. *All words are pre-embedded with Secretable® Digital Sound Stickers in PDF format.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Decoding DOLCH Words with Secrets (1st 100)
Decoding FRY Words with Secret (1st 100)
Decoding High Frequency Words by Syllable Type
Decoding Dictionaries with DOLCH (1st 100)
Decoding Dictionaries with FRY (1st 100)
Dolch Word Cards (1st 100)
Fry Word Cards (1st 100)
High-Frequency Word Clouds (F&P - 1st 100)

Editable Decoding Dictionary

*Editable Templates ARE included for the dictionaries, cards and clouds, but NOT for the Secretable™ sound images that have pre-embedded into the words. To code your own words with the sound images, you would need the "editable" Secretable® Sound Stickers.

This product pairs perfectly with:

Secret Stories® Better Alphabet™ Song Videos

Secret Stories® Better Alphabet™ Classroom Anchors Posters

Secret Stories® Better Alphabet™ Mini-Mats for Individual Student Reference

Secret Stories® Phonics Coloring, Drawing and Word Collection Book

Secret Stories® Digital Phonics Stickers & Interactive Grid for Reading / Spelling

Decoding Sight Words w/Phonics Secrets (Fry / Dolch) - Part 2

Decoding Sight Words Interactive Add-On

Secret Stories® Phonics "Take-Home" Tags for Parent Sharing & Home Review

Secret Stories® "Universal" Phonics Task Cards for Use with ANY Text

Science of Reading / Structured Phonics Lesson & Literacy Templates

Word Bubbles with Embedded Phonics Sounds for Reading