Callie W. Little, Ashley E. Edwards, Monique Harris, Dana Santangelo, and Nicole Patton Terry
Phonological awareness is a necessary component of effective early reading instruction.1 Student’s phonological awareness skills are related to their ability to read words. Students who have strong phonological awareness skills tend to be good readers. The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum is an instructional program that is
designed to target this skill.2 However, at the time of this study, there was limited evidence about the program’s effectiveness in improving reading achievement. Some, but not all elementary schools in our partner school district were using the program during the 2021-2022 school year. These conditions allowed us to examine reading
achievement for students in schools using the program. Using data on students and schools, we examined reading achievement for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders in schools using Heggerty (8 schools) compared to matching schools using their typical reading instruction program (7 schools).