❤️The heart word method teaches children to connect each sound to its spelling and only memorize the unexpected part. This is how the brain actually stores words for long term use. 🧠This process is called orthographic mapping. It means linking the sounds in a word to the letters that spell those sounds and storing that connection permanently. When kids map words this way, they do not have to guess or rely on rote memory. 🌈The result is real word recognition, stronger decoding, and confidence t