The Sounds of Reading focuses on phonological awareness, covering many concepts: rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmentation, syllables, onsets, rimes and phonemes. Each concept will be defined ...

Phonological awareness is an understanding of the different sounds that make up spoken words in a language. It is the ability to recognise when these sounds are the same and when they're different.

“If you’re not hearing about phonemes and phonemic awareness and spelling rules, you’re in a balanced literacy district or school that is likely to impede your child’s progress in reading ...