Parents often believe that children simply need to know their letters to learn to read. But here’s what truly matters first: being able to hear, discriminate and identify speech sounds. Without this essential auditory skill, reading and writing can be like trying to decipher a secret code. If you don’t know the sound they’re linked to, letters are meaningless squiggles on the page.
It’s well established that phonological awareness (which includes auditory discrimination of speech sounds) is a strong predictor of reading ability and interventions that strengthen these skills, significantly improve early literacy learning.
Even before letters come into play, children who can attend to, recognise, isolate, segment, blend and manipulate the sounds in speech have the foundational skills to connect those sounds with letters, later on.
How the Sound Readers course helps
Don’t hope literacy skills will just naturally develop or wait for formal therapy. This simple, fun, and effective course gives you and your child early literacy skill-building activities.
📚 Eight targeted activities created by experienced Speech Language Therapist Polly Newton. Designed to be fun, engaging, easy to do, and effective.
📚 Each activity is built to strengthen speech sound awareness and identification, so your child can:
📚 Hear and discriminate between speech sounds
📚 Identify which speech sounds they hear
📚 All before letters are even introduced
These activities help to build a sound foundation for reading and writing, accelerating future literacy development.
Designed for parent-child engagement, they’re fun, bonding experiences that sneak learning into play.
Use this course:
📖 To support your child to develop phonological awareness skills before they start school and formal literacy instruction
📖 While you’re waiting for a Speech-Language Therapist appointment, to start building those vital skills now
📖 As an enhancement to any of the Speech Teacher Speech Sound Courses and boost effectiveness by laying the groundwork for later speech sound work
"The kids have learned the skills and they are stopping and thinking. All these little improvements have sunk in and they're implementing them in their own space, which is quite nice, cos I don't have to constantly say "So how do you say that?" And it's fun now. Once they realised it's not hard, in their own minds now, it's a game, it's real fun."
Niki - Mum of 3.
When children discover it’s fun to listen to sounds, they own the game.
Equip your child with the ability to hear, discriminate and identify the sounds that make up words, to help support later literacy skills, like learning letters.
The Sound Readers course is affordable, effective, and engaging. It lays the critical foundation for reading and writing, in a playful way that you can easily implement at home.
Start now for just $25, and watch the sound foundation for literacy take shape through joyful learning.
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