This phonemic awareness combo combines Sing Your Way Through Phonics Ready to Read! CD (teacher's voice) with its associated Mini-Charts/Song Lyrics at a reduced price. To prepare children for reading, they need to learn to recognize the sounds within words. The songs in Sing Your Way Through Phonics Ready to Read! provide children with needed practice in rhyming, alliteration, segmenting words into component sounds, and blending those sounds into whole words. A Teaching Suggestions booklet (included free with the combo) contains a basic lesson plan for teaching the songs, and song-specific tips. Ready to Read covers the following phonemic awareness concepts: