The letters of language are like the stars in the Universe—parts of a whole.
—Nanci Bell, Seeing Stars: Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, and Spelling
What Is Seeing Stars?
Seeing Stars is a sequential program of instruction to develop mental imagery for letters in words, as a base for reading and spelling.
The process-based instruction of Seeing Stars teaches the student to create mental imagery for letters within words, and to connect that imagery to the sounds of language. This visual processing of written sounds and symbols is known as symbol imagery—an essential skill that underlies fluent reading and accurate spelling.
How is Seeing Stars unique?
Seeing Stars instruction develops symbol imagery and the imagery-language connection as the essential foundation of accurate spelling and fluent reading.
Spelling is primarily an integration of phonetic processing and symbol imagery, a comparison of auditory and visual—the reason we sometimes write a word a couple of ways to see if it looks right.
—Nanci Bell, Seeing Stars: Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words, and Spelling
How does Seeing Stars instruction help?
Develop the student's ability to…
- Image, say, and write letters by name or sound.
- Image, decode, and spell simple and complex one-syllable words.
- Automatically image, read, and spell an extensive base of sight words.
- Image, read, and spell two- and three-syllable words.
- Read fluently in context.
What does Gander Publishing offer?
We are the publisher and provider of all Seeing Stars products. Browse the selection on our website or contact us for more information.
Featured Products
- Seeing Stars Kit: Everything you need to implement the program
- Seeing Stars Manual: Presents theory and specific steps
