Phonological Awareness and Beginning Phonics Program
Grades Pre K –1

The Sounds Sensible® kit offers structured, sequential, hands-on instruction to develop phonological awareness and beginning phonics skills. Its Orton-Gillingham philosophy makes Sounds Sensible®uniquely effective as part of an intervention, prevention or inclusion reading program.

Program Materials The Sounds Sensible® kit includes:

• A Teacher’s Manual providing structured lessons and direct instruction
• Blackline Masters containing games, cards, handwriting masters, Key Word Concept Sheets, Sound Contrast Sheets and Sound Tap Sheets
• Interactive games and over 800 picture-letter cards that ensure retention and make learning fun

• Listening (sound discrimination and categorization)
• Rhyming (matching, generating, categorizing, and onset and rime)
• Segmentation and deletion (sentence, syllable and phoneme)
• Letter formation (manuscript)
• Sound-symbol relationships (consonants and short vowel a)
• Dictation (phonemes and words)
• Simultaneous oral spelling