Note: This product is designed to complement the Secret Stories®, and it does not include the Secret Stories® Phonics posters and stories. To explore Secret Stories® and access FREE RESOURCES, join the Secret Facebook Group Files!
The BETTER ALPHABET™ offers the quickest route to learning individual letters and sounds, leveraging muscle memory to accelerate mastery within just 2 weeks for Pre-K and kindergarten students. This product features three video versions of the Better Alphabet™, enhanced with sound anchors that are highlighted as the sounds are sung. This unique approach ensures children “SEE what they SING, and SING what they SEE,” effectively reinforcing sound/symbol connections in the brain. For deeper insights into the Better Alphabet™ and the “Secrets” behind its effectiveness, watch this video on YouTube!
This video resource is an invaluable tool for remote teaching, online learning sessions, and at-home student practice. This digital product is suitable for use in both live and recorded class lessons and can be shared with students within your classroom. However, it is not licensed for sharing with students outside your personal classroom or for public posting where it could be accessed beyond your classroom. (One license per classroom.)
This product includes THREE distinct video versions of the Secret Stories® Better Alphabet™ Sing song (detailed below), along with an informative overview video by Katie Garner. This overview explains the best practices for using the videos to rapidly track individual letter-sound mastery.
- Bonus video of Jack Hartmann’s BETTER ALPHABET™ (“light” version) with a unique twist! Consider the “original” version as building foundational reading skills, and Jack’s version as a way to “exercise” those skills! Similar to the “original” versions, this version also provides a full-screen focus on letter anchors as they are sung, prioritizing the sound/symbol connections vital for reading and writing.
PERFECT FOR USE WITH:
BETTER ALPHABET™ Videos
BETTER ALPHABET™ Classroom Anchors Posters
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 1
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
Science of Reading / Secret Stories® Centers for Phoneme Grapheme FUN!
Secret Stories® Interactive Boom Cards
Digital “Tastes” of Secret Stories®
Secret Stories Superhero Vowels®
Secret Stories Mommy E®
Secret Stories Sneaky Y®
Secret Stories Babysitter Vowels®
Secret Stories Beethoven Blends™
And for the “bundled” set of Secret Stories® mini-packs listed above, check out The SECRETS of the Superhero Vowels® and MORE!!!
Secret Stories® Readers
In the Fall
A Barn Owl Tale
My Class
My Classmates
Farmer Gobbler’s Birthday
Dean’s Treehouse
Troy’s Quest!
Like a Snowball
Sneaky Y®’s Secret
Bring letters and Secrets™ alive by transforming students into actual words with the Secret Stories® Headband Sets!
Superhero Vowels® Headbands
Sneaky Y® Headbands
Mommy E® Headbands
Babysitter Vowels® Headbands
And be sure to download all these great FREEBIES…
~ A Secret Stories® Sampling! (phonics chunks / spelling chunks)
~ Secret Stories® Reward Bucks for Phonics SECRETS!
~ What Do Good Writers and Zoo-Keepers Have in Common? from the SECRET STORIES!
~ Fairytale Fun Begins with Once Upon a Time….
~ Shape Anchors with highlighted SECRET STORIES
~ Gum Ball Groups for “Easy-to-Organize” Guided Grouping
~ Adorable (and FREE!) Birthday “Keepsake” Class Book
~ FREE Writing “Bits & Pieces!!”
~ Pocket Books- A Mini-Unit by The Bag Ladies!!!
~ Cutest EVER Common Core SCIENCE STANDARDS Posters for Kindergarten and PK!
~ Cutest EVER Common Core SCIENCE STANDARDS Posters for First / 1st Grade!
~ Cutest EVER Common Core SCIENCE STANDARDS Posters for Second / 2nd Grade!
~ Cutest EVER Common Core SCIENCE STANDARDS Posters for Third / 3rd Grade!
For more on the Secret Stories® reading and writing phonics “secrets” visit
