Sounder & Friends®

Welcome to our official YouTube Channel, live as of March 1, 2021!

Created by literacy experts, Sounder & Friends® targets the critical but often neglected skill of phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and play with individual sounds (or phonemes) in spoken words. Educational researchers recognize that phonemic awareness is key to reading proficiency. Children need to be able to blend, segment, and manipulate the sounds in words in order to read and spell proficiently.