As a preschool / pre-k teacher and literacy specialist, I see many parents and teachers VERY focused on having kids memorize "sight words" in order to help with reading.

But research tells us that memorizing words as whole words is ineffective and NOT helpful to our kids.

Instead, we want to pull apart the sounds in words and map those sounds onto letters, which is called phoneme-grapheme mapping.

By doing this, our brains will "orthographically map" those words into our sight word memories.

Keep listening to learn more about the process of orthographic mapping, and find out why it's the key to helping little ones become strong readers.

VIDEO LINKS:

1) Sight Words vs. High-Frequency Words

2) Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

3) Heart Word Method

4) Heart Words vs. Flash Words

5) VC and CVC Word Blending

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