Creating a Bridge to Reading

Knowing how to build words by blending sounds may seem like a simple task, but not for every child. There’s an art to teaching phonemic awareness, so your child feels confident in making the jump into reading.

Our reading tutors understand that each child learns in different ways, so they pace fun phonemic awareness activities to your child’s skill level. When your child understands the relationship among the sounds of words, the next step — reading — becomes a true adventure.

Explore our phonemic awareness help

Using phonemic awareness activities, personal instruction and fun motivation, our reading tutors teach your child how to:

  • Understand the sounds associated with letters of the alphabet
  • Learn how to build words by blending sounds
  • Recognize that new words can be formed by removing sounds from other words (i.e., remove the /h/ sound from hat to form a new word: at)

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1st Grade Phonemic Awareness

With 1st grade reading tutoring, your child will learn how to:

  • Understand the sounds associated with letters of the alphabet
  • Learn how to build words by blending sounds
  • Recognize that new words can be formed by removing sounds from other words (for example, remove the /h/ sound from hat to form a new word: at)

Learn more about Sylvan Learning's 1st Grade ReadingTutoring.

2nd Grade Phonemic Awareness

With 2nd grade reading tutoring, your child will learn how to:

  • Understand the sounds associated with letters of the alphabet
  • Learn how to build words by blending sounds
  • Recognize that new words can be formed by removing sounds from other words (i.e., remove the /h/ sound from hat to form a new word: at)

Learn more about Sylvan Learning's 2nd Grade Reading Tutoring.