Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness - now known to be an important step to a child's early reading acquisition - this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings. With a developmental sequence of activities that follows a school year calendar, teachers can chose from a range of activities for their preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms. Plus, the curriculum includes an easy-to-use assessment test for screening up to 15 children at a time. This assessment not only helps to objectively estimate the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing but may also

Marilyn Jager Adams is Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Barbara R. Foorman is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Ingvar Lundberg is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Goteborg University in Sweden. Terri Beeler is Assistant Professor of Urban Education at the University of Houston's downtown campus.