Introducing
Explicit phonemic awareness and phonics instruction come together in our new K-2 foundational skills curriculum!
The foundation of reading starts here.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand that spoken words are made up of individual sounds called phonemes, and it’s one of the best early predictors for reading success.
66%
of 4th graders and 69% of 8th graders are reading below a proficient level, according to 2022 NAEP scores.
National Association of Educational Progress Reading Assessment, 2022
95%
of elementary students are capable of learning to read when they receive sufficient instruction on foundational reading skills.
"Narrowing the Third Grade Reading Gap" EAB Report, 2019
99%
of teachers surveyed said Heggerty meets or exceeds expectations when it comes to having a positive impact on learning outcomes.
Strategex survey of 676 Heggerty customers, 2020
Heggerty is the most structured and systematic curriculum that I’ve seen. Everyone is really excited about it. It’s fun to watch. The kids like it too.
District of Columbia Public Schools
Washington, D.C.
It's one of the most worthwhile purchases the district has ever made. Everyone is happy with it -- it's 100%! We've done a lot of site tours to see how the implementation is going, and good anecdotal stories just keep coming from the instructors. I honestly haven't heard anything negative.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Alaska
When you look for programs out there, there are hundreds of phonics programs but very few phonemic awareness programs that take students from the simplest to advanced forms. Heggerty has come out with a comprehensive and systematic way to do that. It follows an excellent scope and sequence. It develops all of the skills they need to know. No one does it as systematically as Heggerty.
School District of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
The Heggerty curriculum is consistent, repetitive, and presents the same skill in different ways. I've taken kids who were non-readers and after three to four months with the Heggerty program, they hear sounds and words and they segment and blend words which makes them better readers. It's the intermediary step between non-readers and readers.
Knox County School District
Tennessee, USA
The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness program is brilliant. It requires very little preparation and the lessons are engaging, quick, fun, and effective. The results speak for themselves, with a majority of students showing improved outcomes in both reading and writing.
WHSS
Queensland, Australia
Dr. Heggerty's program is easy to implement and requires very little preparation. We have used this program for one year and have seen fabulous gains in our students’ ability to attempt unfamiliar words in their writing.
Wellers Hill State School
Queensland, Australia
I purchased ALL the flash cards and love them! P.S. I love the updated Kinder "Blue Book!" My students are doing great...even virtual! That says a lot!
Kindergarten Teacher
Clark County School District
Comprehensive, yet succinctly organized, logically arranged, and richly resourced. The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness curriculum is the best research-based program for foundational literacy I have ever seen. Its value for hard-of-hearing & students struggling with central auditory processing issue is clearly applicable.
School District of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
This curriculum has had a powerfully positive effect on student achievement in eastern Montana schools. Student early literacy assessment scores have improved greatly in the schools that have begun using this curriculum over the past 2-3 years.
RTL Support Specialist
Glendive, Montana
This is the best program I have EVER used! A few minutes a day and the results are mind blowing!
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Strong phonemic awareness is crucial to reading success! Heggerty lessons are quick, fun, and multisensory!
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I use this curriculum in my classroom almost every single day! It is incredible and it is the ONLY thing that makes sense about teaching reading! I am literally obsessed.
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Our kindergarten and first grade used it last year and now it is being used in second grade! It has made a huge difference!!
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We use your methods daily. The kids skills are improving, and we couldn't be more excited for them! Thank you for providing such an amazing program that is really worth the time and effort.
Reading Intervention Specialist
LakeVille Community School District
Did you know phonemic awareness is not the same thing as phonics? You can read more about phonemic awareness vs. phonics in this blog post written by Marjorie Bottari, the Director of Professional Development at Heggerty.
🔗 Link to full blog post in our bio!
"While phonemic awareness is oral and auditory, phonics instruction is both visual and auditory. The focus of phonics instruction is letter-sound relationships. During explicit phonics instruction students are taught the letter or letter combinations that represent the 44 sounds or phonemes in the English language.
As students match letters or letter combinations to the sounds they hear in words, they apply the phonemic awareness skills of blending, segmenting, and manipulating phonemes with the print that represents each sound. In this way, phonemic awareness is connected to phonics."
Mar 27
⭐ Did you know Heggerty has a Pre-K curriculum? "The Purple Book," as it's often called, uses nursery rhymes to introduce preschool students to language play.
💜 The lessons include eight phonological and phonemic awareness skills, taught in a systematic progression. The advanced skill of initial phoneme substitution is taught beginning in Week 19, after students have learned to isolate, blend, and segment with phonemes.
🤩 The STES Pre-K team at Fulton is new to implementing the Pre-K curriculum & they are already Heggerty superstars. We couldn't help but smile at the engagement shown in this photo! Are you currently using the Pre-K curriculum? Tell us what week you are currently teaching in the comments below ⬇️
🔗 Link to our sample Pre-K lessons can be found in the link in our bio & in stories now.
Mar 24
📣 Register today for our upcoming webinar: Why Teach Articulation Awareness? The Importance of Accurate Sound Production in Literacy
🔗 To register, visit: www.heggerty.org/webinars OR use the link in our bio.
💡 Did you know? Articulation and speech sounds help facilitate phonemic awareness, positively impacting literacy development!
⭐ Join Literacy Specialist, Lori Jurjovec to learn why articulation matters, see real examples of how it can influence student's reading and spelling accuracy, and how to avoid common errors when working with students at home or in the classroom.
This webinar is intended for educators who work with children in Pre-K through 2nd-grade classrooms, in whole group, small group, or 1:1 settings.
Unable to join us live? No worries, this is a recorded live event! Please register to receive the on-demand version.
Mar 2
📙 Mr. Newman's Kindergarten class is one of the first to get their hands (and pencils) on our NEW Bridge to Reading Foundational Skills kit! Follow Mr. Newman's class on Instagram & Twitter (@Evolvingclassrm) as they continue to pilot Bridge to Reading.
⭐ Want to get a peek inside Bridge to Reading? Visit heggerty.org/btr or click the link in our bio to download our digital sample; the Bridge to Reading sample for kindergarten and first grade includes the following:
+ the curriculum scope and sequence
+ a full lesson from the Teachers' Guide, including both phonemic awareness and phonics instruction
+ pages from the student R.E.A.D. practice book
🎉 Sample lessons for second grade will be available this April!
Mar 2
🗓️ Join us and our friends at HiMama on Thursday, February 23rd at 1:00pm CST, for a special webinar "How to Teach Phonological Awareness in Early Childhood"
⭐ Presented by Marjorie Bottari, Heggerty Director of Professional Development, to learn and define the 3 PH’s: phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics, and dig into the research behind the importance of phonological awareness and how to teach it in the home and classroom.
In this webinar, you will learn:
+ the similarities and differences of the 3 PH’s (phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics)
+ the research why explicitly teaching phonemic awareness is important
+ how to teach phonological awareness at home or in the classroom.
🔗 Link in our bio to register!
🗒️ This live event will be recorded. Please register for the live event to receive the on-demand version, when available.
Feb 13
⭐ Can you name the skill this group of Heggerty all-stars are practicing?
📘 They are practicing Phoneme Isolation: Final Sounds- Students will listen for the last sound they hear in a word!
💪 Hand Motion: Punch it Out- The teacher slides (left) arm across body when saying the first part of the word, and punches left fist straight up in the air when saying the final sound. Students mirror the teacher, and will use their right arm.
✔️ Example: "We are listening for the last sound we hear in a word." Teacher- duck, Students- duck, /k/
💡 Tip: New to Heggerty hand motions? Follow along with one of our daily lesson video samples on our YouTube channel- we promise, with some practice, you'll have the hand motions down in no time!
🔗 Click the link in our bio for lesson plan samples & skill tutorial videos!
Feb 3
🗓️ Mark your calendars & join us for our next Heggerty webinar, "Decodable Texts and Leveled Readers: What Are They and How Can We Use Them?"
⭐ Join Heggerty’s Marjorie Bottari, Director of Professional Development, and Literacy Specialist Erica Suarez to learn more about what decodable texts and leveled readers are, their purpose in different instructional settings, and how we can make informed instructional decisions using the resources we have. In this webinar, you will learn:
+ The difference between decodable texts and leveled readers
+ The purpose of decodable texts vs. leveled readers
+ The importance of utilizing resources within our classroom to best meet the needs of all learners
🔗 Link in bio to register, or visit: heggerty.org/resources
🗒️ This live event will be recorded. Please register for the live event to receive the on-demand version, when available.
Jan 27
🎬 Behind the Scenes: We are excited to share another “behind the scenes” clip of content you will find in our new Bridge to Reading Foundational Skills Curriculum!
⭐️ Under the direction of speech and language pathologist Deb Santefort, we recorded each child saying all 44 phonemes, or sounds, of the English language.
These photos and videos will be used throughout the new curriculum to help students visualize the shape our mouths to articulate each phoneme.
🔗 Learn More about Bridge to Reading & download a free sample at heggerty.org/btr
Jan 20
"I often reflect on my time as a classroom teacher and wish so desperately that I had known more about what dyslexia truly is and what signs to be on the lookout for because early intervention is KEY for dyslexic individuals." - Lori Jurjovec, Heggerty Literacy Specialist
✏️ In this blog post, Lori defines dyslexia, unpacks common misconceptions and spotlights common warning signs. Want to read more? Visit heggerty.org/blog to read the full blog post!
Jan 18
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