- The Alphabet Cheer provides practice hearing and saying the names of each letter. Children learn that letters have names.
- The ABC Song provides practice matching the name of the letter to a word beginning with that sound. Children learn that letters make sounds.
- The Word Hunt song shows how sounds are put together to make words.
Rhymes and songs develop both phonemic awareness and phonics skills. The National Reading Panel concluded that teaching phonemic awareness & phonics increases reading and spelling achievement.
Book and CD
Sing-Along Phonics Fun -- Learning to Read with Rhyme, Rhythm and Repetition. Perfect for preschoolers and primary-grade children.
Develop phonemic awareness
- Play with the sounds of language through rhyme and song.
- Help children discriminate the sounds that make up words.
Teach phonics using word families
- Help children learn words that share the same spelling pattern and word sound.
- Learn to read nearly 500 primary words from the 37 word family songs.
Book and Cassette or CD
Colorful 12" x17" Charts of word families, a set of 37
