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Phonics Learning Videos

Teaching Clips, Tips & Tricks for Optimal Reading Instruction

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How I Teach Phonics with Secret Stories® for Reading, Writing & Spelling | Secret Stories®

Teaching Homeschool Reading - Playing “Charades” Phonics Game | Secret Stories®️

Word Study / Word Work Activity - Spotting Phonics "Secrets" in Guided Reading | Secret Stories®

Teach Sight Words Stress-Free! - How to Fast-Track Phonics in Your Reading Program | Secret Stories®

Hooked on Phonics vs. Secret Stories® for Homeschool Reading - Program Comparison | Secret Stories®

Teach Your Child to Read - Best Homeschool Phonics Curriculum for Teaching Reading | Secret Stories®

Word Work Activities for Phonics & Sight Words - Kindergarten Reading & Writing | Secret Stories®

Reading Fluency with Songs - Teaching Beginning Readers & Writers in Kindergarten | Secret Stories®

The "Better Alphabet" Song for Early Reading Intervention | Secret Stories®

Phonics Word Study in Kindergarten Writing - "Sentence of the Day" | Secret Stories®

Phonics Fun for Reading with Play-Based Learning - Kindergarten Birthday Party | Secret Stories®

Teaching Phonics for Reading in Kindergarten /January - Brain Based Learning | Secret Stories®

Decoding Words in Kindergarten Intervention /January - Phonics for Reading "wait" | Secret Stories®

Phonics Play for Kindergarten Reading - Literacy Centers Fun with "ch" and "ed" | Secret Stories®

Kindergarten Phonics Fun with Puppet Play - Reading Games & Literacy Centers | Secret Stories®

Teach Vowel Sounds with Puppet Play - Reading Games & Activities for Phonics | Secret Stories®

Digraphs Puppet Play for Reading - Phonics Activities & Games in Kindergarten | Secret Stories®

Digraph Fun for Kindergarten Reading - Phonics Games & Activities | Secret Stories®

Decoding Words in Kindergarten /January - Phonics for Reading | Secret Stories®

Decoding Multisyllabic Words in Kindergarten/January - Phonics for Reading "alarm" | Secret Stories®

Writers Workshop in Kindergarten (Spring) - Learning to Read & Write | Secret Stories®

Writers Workshop in Kindergarten Early Fall - Learning to Read & Write | Secret Stories®

Reading Intervention - Phonics for Reading in Kindergarten (Spring) | Secret Stories®

Reading Intervention - Phonics for Reading in Kindergarten (January) | Secret Stories®

Reading Intervention - Phonics for Reading in Kindergarten (Late Fall) | Secret Stories®

Phonics in Kindergarten in OCTOBER! - Kindergarten Reading Like You've Never Seen! | Secret Stories®

How to Teach Phonics for Homeschool Reading - A Brain Based Curriculum Program | Secret Stories®

Teaching Beginning Writers with Readers Theater - First Grade "Playwrights" | Secret Stories®

"Why Wait?!!" - The Slow Pace of Phonics Skills Instruction for Beginning Reading | Secret Stories®

Phonics "Tools & Tricks" for Teachers - Using Brain Science to Accelerate Reading | Secret Stories®

Blends, Vowels & Digraphs - Phonics Fun & Games to Build Phonemic Awareness | Secret Stories®

Secret Stories® Phonics Video - A Brain Based Approach to Accelerate Phonics Instruction for Reading

A Brain Based Approach to Phonics & Decoding - Teaching Reading in Rwanda (Pt. 1) | Secret Stories®

A Brain Based Approach to Phonics & Decoding - Teaching Reading in Rwanda (Pt. 2) | Secret Stories®

Phonemic Awareness/ Phonics - Segmenting for Spelling & Blending for Reading | Secret Stories®

Learn to Read & Spell Hard Words - There's a "Secret" For That! | Secret Stories®

Phonemic Awareness - Reading Games, Songs & Activities for Beginning Readers | Secret Stories®

Phonemic Awareness - Phonics Songs, Games & Activities for Reading | Secret Stories®

Phonemic Awareness - Phonics Spelling Games/ Activity for Reading | Secret Stories®

Phonemic Awareness for Reading - Blends, Sneaky Y® & ING "Secret" Phonics Activity | Secret Stories®

Teacher-Made Presentations for Easy Staff Sharing

Phonics Tutorial Videos

Katie’s “Quick-Tip” Secret Stories® Clips

HOW IT WORKS

Sharing a Secret

Don’t Stick to the Script!

Ownership is Key

Why It Works

No More Memorizing!

HOW IT LOOKS

Who Knows the Secret?

(AU / AW)

Superhero Vowels® & their “Short & Lazy” Sounds

Mommy E®

Spotting Secrets!

(TION / SION / ATION)

Sneaky Y®

The Exception “Outlaw” Words

(TH)

Writing Like They Read

(‘Zookeepers’)

Experience is the Best Teacher!

(‘Vowel-Hearts’ & ER / IR / UR & OI / OY)

Secrets to Spelling— Experience is the Best Teacher

(2 Vowels Go A-Walkin’)

Choices… Choices…

(AY / EY & AI & MOMMY E®)

HOW IT SOUNDS

Musical “Brain Teasers” for Building Sound-Skill Automaticity

Musical Exercise for Optimal Learning

Letters to Patterns – It’s Just So Easy!

The Short Vowel “Letter Run”

(AR)