Studies show that children who start school with strong sound awareness skills tend to become better readers and writers. Learn more about what sound awareness is and use a fun Hanen strategy to help children learn this skill while you’re looking at print, both in books and at other times throughout the day.

Rhyming books are one of the best tools for promoting sound awareness, a skill that prepares children for connecting the letters they see on a page with the sounds they represent. In this Book Nook, we share a fun Hanen strategy that you can use when sharing rhyming books with your child.

Books with a lot of repeated sounds or alliteration are great for building your child’s sound awareness – a key early literacy skill. Join Pete the Cat and his pals at a pizza party while using a fun Hanen strategy to highlight sounds for your child. 

An important part of early literacy is understanding that letters correspond to particular sounds. This is called “sound awareness” and it’s linked to the development of a variety of other literacy and language skills. Here’s a fun Hanen strategy to help your child pay attention to the sounds in words.

Rhyming books are a great tool for promoting sound awareness, a skill that prepares children for connecting the letters they see on a page with the sounds they represent, which is critical for making sense of print. In this Book Nook, we share a Hanen strategy that you can use when reading rhyming books with your child.

One of the key ways to prepare young children for school success is to build their emergent literacy skills – the skills required before a child begins to read and write. What are the key emergent literacy skills young children need to learn, and what are some of the research-based ways we can support them?