38. What is the Heart Word Method for Teaching High-Frequency Words [Sight Words]?

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

But research is telling 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.

Keep listening to learn more about phoneme-grapheme mapping using a specific method called the "Heart Word Method."

You can see more about this method from Really Great Reading here: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic

I've also included an example of a 4 year old using the Heart Word Method for the word "from" so you can listen to this process in action.

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