More and more research is pointing to the lack of phonemic awareness as being one of the primary culprits.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to discriminate and manipulate the sound system of a language.
A child with strong phonemic awareness finds rhyming a natural pattern. He is able to take a word apart and identify the individual phonemes contained within that word. For most children the development of these skills is as natural as learning to walk. These children are at risk of becoming poor readers. This program identifies these potential poor readers and implements a collaborative approach to develop phonemic awareness skills.