Program Goals and Expected Outcomes

Phonological awareness training is an evidence-based program that:

Teaches children who are struggling with reading acquisition to attend to the sound structure of spoken language.
Helps children recognize that sentences are made up of words, and that words are made up of syllables and individual sounds (phonemes).
Develops an understanding of the alphabetic principle —that sounds in spoken language are represented by letters.
Facilitates the acquisition of reading skills, and its effects last well beyond the completion of the training.

Research has shown that children who are struggling with the acquisition of early reading skills who are provided with systematic and explicit phonological awareness training learn to:

Recognize rhyming words that are presented orally
Orally produce rhyming words
Segment sentences presented orally into words
Isolate syllables in words presented orally
Blend syllables to form words in spoken language
Segment words presented orally into syllables
Isolate phonemes in words presented orally
Blend phonemes to form words in spoken language
Segment words presented orally into phonemes
Recognize that letters are used to represent phonemes in spoken language
Manipulate phonemes using letters
Apply their phonological awareness skills in reading tasks

Program Goals And Expected Outcomes