Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners’ preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness — now known to be an important step to a child’s early reading acquisition — this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings.

Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles (picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives) is included. 128 pages.

Designed to teach basic skills, this 12-book series is correlated to national standards and provides instruction to reinforce reading and math skills.

Cook up early literacy skills! Familiar-looking cans and their corresponding contents reinforce each letter of the alphabet.

• Features a can for every letter, each holding an uppercase and lowercase letter plus 5 object cards featuring real–life photos on one side and word labels on the reverse
• Supports alphabet awareness, letter sounds, and recognition of letter shapes
• Builds early vocabulary, oral language, sorting and fine motor skills
• Includes 130 die–cut photo cards, 52 color–coded letters (red vowels, blue consonants), and 26 durable cardboard cans with lids
• Activity Guide includes interventions
• Cans measure 3" in diameter x 4.25"H

Learning the ABCs is loads of fun with this charming collection of 26 alliterative stories-one for each letter of the alphabet! Children will love the rib-tickling adventures of Abby the Alligator, Bubble Bear, the Copycats, and more as they build all-important letter recognition skills that lay the foundation for reading success.

Teach and practice important phonemic awareness and emergent reading skills with the help of these simple puppet patterns! Includes patterns to make paperbag puppets for each letter of the alphabet in addition to several blends and digraphs. Young children love making these creative, cute puppets and learning each letter's distinctive sound. With the use of puppets, children will be motivated to practice phonemic skills both at school and home. 48 pages.

Grades PreK-1

A high-energy introduction to letters, sounds, alphabetical order and word building. Activity Guide includes 8 different kinesthetic games! Great for individual, small-group or whole-class play. Includes 4.5' square vinyl alphabet mat, 5 inflatable cubes illustrated with familiar objects that start with different letters, and game markers. 1+ players.

Fun word–building practice for beginning readers, and it takes only 15 minutes to play! This quick, easy–to–play game targets early literacy skills. Great for word–building centers and indoor recess time!

• Offers a fast–paced opportunity to practice blends, digraphs, beginning consonants, and short– and long–vowel word families
• Provides three levels of memory–style play as students work to make 3–, 4– or 5–letter words
• Engages beginning readers who exercise memory skills as they remember what's under each spot
• Includes 104 color–coded cards featuring word parts—22 blue beginning consonants, 22 green beginning blends, 22 red 2–letter chunks, 22 purple 3–letter chunks and 16 "wild" spots
• Features 4 dog dish answer cards and a fun dog–shaped game board measuring 16"L x 10"H
• For 2–4 players

It's a jungle out there for beginning readers! Motivating game enables them to build 3–, 4– and 5–letter words by simply matching! Early learners hop around a game board, answer early literacy questions, and work to earn letters to build the word shown on their game card.

• Reinforces beginning and ending letter sounds and rhyming with simply written game card questions featuring helpful picture cues
• Supports letter identification, word building and spelling—great for early learners and ELLs
• Provides 3 levels of play as students build 3–, 4– and 5–letter words
• Includes 80 self–checking question cards, 104 lowercase letter cards, 25 word cards (color–coded for 3–, 4– or 5–letter words), 4 animal pawns, and a colorful game board measuring 16.5"L x 16.5"H
• For 2–4 players

For helping kindergartners and first graders who are having difficulty on their early literacy skills, Road to the Code is a successful, 11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Developmentally sequenced, each of the 44 15-20-minute lessons features three activities — Say-It-and-Move-It, Letter Name and Sound Instruction, and Phonological Awareness Practice — that give students repeated opportunities to practice and enhance their beginning reading and spelling abilities. Road to the Code is backed by more than 10 years of study in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms.

Detailed scripted instructions and reproducible materials — such as Alphabet Picture and Sound Bingo cards — make this program easy for teachers to use. Teachers have the flexibility to work with students individually or in small groups and may adjust the amount of time it takes for a student to complete the program. With these proven phonological awareness activities, educators can confidently intervene before children have a chance to fail.