Research on early brain development shows that the brain develops from back to front, with the social-emotional “feeling” based systems developing far earlier than the higher-level, executive processing centers (which are actually the latest area to fully develop). But this is the nature of the beast when teaching “abstract” phonics skills to “concrete” level thinkers-who are often eating their shoes and licking the carpet during your reading instruction! -)
#Wonders kindergarten sight word list citation code
Howard’s mouse will literally be DEAD by the time gets the sound for “oalong to make make sense of his own name!įrom a common sense perspective, it seems ridiculous to make kids wait 3-4 grade level years (from pk-2nd grade) for the “whole” code they need to read and write from the first day of kindergarten. That means if Howard wants to write about his pet mouse in kindergarten or first grade, he’s out of luck because the ou/ow phonics “skill” won’t formally introduced for another 1-2 years, about midway through second grade. phonics skills), then how can they read the words? Without the code, beginning and struggling readers have to rely solely on memorizing words while they wait for the slow pace of grade-level phonics instruction to catch-up. It’s really that simple. If kids don’t know the Secrets (a.k.a. Phonics Keys to UNLOCK WORDS for Reading “How do I know which Secrets to teach for each sight word?” or “Is there a list of sight words that has the Secrets I need to teach with them?” or my favorite, “I don’t have time to teach the Secrets because of all the sight words that I have to teach!” (Can you see the irony in that last one?) It’s always seems odd to me when I hear questions like…. Decoding Sight Words with Phonics Secrets is finally DONE!!īut before I share more about this, I wanted to explain why I created it in the first place….
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