Know the words. Build the meaning. Spark fluent reading.
Knowing Words helps developing readers recognize high-frequency words quickly and understand what they mean.
Spark children's love of reading!
How Knowing Words works
Through explicit instruction, visual-spatial learning, writing, and hands-on modeling, students build stronger connections between a word’s form, meaning, and use.
Words become more than something to memorize—they become meaningful, memorable, and easier to recognize with confidence and fluency.
Builds efficient word recognition.
Connects words with meaning.
Makes abstract words concrete.
Supports fluent, meaningful reading.
Make words meaningful
Put meaningful word learning in their hands
Knowing Words uses a consistent Say, Build, See, Write learning sequence that brings together word recognition, meaning, visual-spatial learning, and hands-on practice.
1
Say
Students say the word aloud and explore what it means and how it is used. Connecting the spoken word with its meaning helps students move beyond simply memorizing its appearance.
1
Say
Students say the word aloud and explore what it means and how it is used. Connecting the spoken word with its meaning helps students move beyond simply memorizing its appearance.
2
Build
Students use clay to create a visual-spatial model that represents the meaning of the word. By turning an abstract idea into something they can build, explain, and manipulate, students create a memorable connection to the word.
3
See
Students look closely at the written word, noticing its letters, spelling, and overall visual form. Seeing the word alongside the meaning they have explored helps connect what the word looks like with what the word means.
4
Write
Students write the word themselves, reinforcing its spelling and visual pattern while connecting the written form back to its pronunciation, meaning, and use in language.
Research-backed
ESSA Level III - Promising Evidence
BrainScience Works demonstrated significant gains in letter recognition, and subsequent school pilots have shown continued growth in foundational literacy skills.
33%
improvement in lowercase letter recognition
when compared with an 11% improvement among students who completed the school’s curriculum alone.
Shape stronger readers
Testimonials
The students enjoy doing the program and even ask when they get to work on it!
Reading Interventionist
CA Public School
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