Many people don’t know that, like letter names and sounds, phonological awareness is a key foundational prerequisite skill for reading and spelling. While your child is in the process of learning letter names and sounds, they should also be working to develop their phonological awareness skills.

In this post, we explain what phonological awareness is and how to practice it with your child to get them ready for literacy.

To get kids ready to read, it is important for them to learn to identify letter names and sounds. This provides the building blocks needed to sound out words and is the foundation of all future reading.

Here are a few simple things you can do at home to help your child learn letter names and sounds that incorporate sight, sound, hearing, and touch. The more senses that are engaged, the more memory is enhanced.