We suggest that phonemic awareness is 10-12 minutes (no more than 15 minutes) of your literacy instruction within the school day. It can be used to complement any reading series or phonics curriculum. In each Heggerty PA lesson students work with phoneme isolation with initial, final, and medial sounds, blending, segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting phonemes, along with 2 Early Literacy Skills: Alphabet Knowledge and Language Awareness.   7-8 phonological and phonemic awareness skills are taught in every lesson, everyday.

The lessons are engaging and fast-paced, and provide students with the phonemic awareness skills they need to succeed as readers.  Phonemic awareness is a great way to warm up our brains to prepare us for phonics instruction, therefore if possible, we suggest doing phonemic awareness before your phonics lessons.

Andrew Follett

Hi there! I’m the CEO at Heggerty. Prior to joining the team, I was on staff at The Field School where my kids attend, and where I continue to serve on the board. I was also the Founder & CEO at Demo Duck, a video production agency. I live in Oak Park, IL with my wife and 3 children, and enjoy travel, hockey, tennis, and reading (of course).