English is confusing. Sound Cues Help.  Give your child the information they need to learn to read sight words, not just memorize them.

Children often learn sight words by memorizing them. This doesn’t work for everyone. Ultimate Sound Cues helps children learn to read sight words, not just memorize them. Teach your child to read!

Versatile Multi-Sensory Sound Cues for each sound in the word provides the Phonological Awareness that children need to fully understand and truly learn each word. Teach your child to read, not just memorize.

Teach children to read Sight Words, not just memorize them. Ultimate Sound Cues provide children with the information they need. English is confusing – Sound Cues Help!

Minimal Pairs are words that differ only by one sound such as Cat/Hat, One/Run and Tar/Star. Minimal Pairs are very powerful. Children learn that changing just one sound in a word can change it to something else.

Minimal Pairs can be used to work on these phonological awareness skills:

• Recognize and Produce Rhymes
• Recognize Sounds in Different Positions of Words
• Manipulate Sounds in Words to Change One Word to Another
• Sound Letter Correspondence – Knowing what Sounds Letters Make

This program has 456 minimal pairs covering a wide variety of consonants and vowel differences.

Tool #2 Puzzle Words
Puzzle Words are words that have been broken down into sounds and word parts. Each word is represented by a fun image, the letters that spell the word and the Sound Symbols for each sound. The letters and symbols are spaced so that they can be cut apart. Having separate pieces helps with putting sounds together and breaking them apart.

Puzzle Words help with these essential skills:

• Putting Sounds and Word Parts Together
• Breaking words into parts and sounds
• Deletion of Sounds
• Recognizing Sounds in Different Positions of Words
• Sound Letter Correspondence

Tool #1 Rhyming Sets / Word Families

Rhyming is the foundation of phonological awareness. You need to be able to listen to and discriminate sounds to be able to do the more advanced skills. Literacy is built on listening and speaking.

In addition to helping with recognizing and producing rhymes, rhyming sets and word families are a great tool to learn how to manipulate sounds in words to change one word to another.