| Description: |
Sound Foundations, a literacy curriculum designed to teach phonological awareness to preliterate children, focuses exclusively on phoneme identity (that is, different words can start and end with the same sound). It works from the principle that phonemic awareness is necessary but not sufficient to reading, which depends on the alphabetic principle (that is, the association of sounds with letters and using those sounds to form words). The curriculum is self-contained and can be used by teachers, parents, or teaching assistants. |
