SoundTown Subscription Builds Literacy Skills for Young Learners

Last Updated 9/16/2025

This school year, The Green Dragon Foundation provided support for a SoundTown subscription for kindergarten and pre-K students at Kelly Elementary. The funding came from the William H. & Lillian D. Heiner Endowment for Literacy Mastery at The Green Dragon Foundation. SoundTown is a web-based program that supports phonemic awareness and letter sound knowledge through engaging, student-friendly videos. Pre-K and kindergarten teachers use SoundTown to supplement their core curriculum and help students strengthen their letter-sound knowledge. In pre-K, Mrs. Tiffany Ranck is using SoundTown to introduce all of the letter sounds. In kindergarten classrooms, SoundTown is used to review and reinforce letter sounds. Several kindergarten intervention teachers have been using SoundTown with their intervention groups as well.

Kelly Elementary teacher Hannah Irion-Frake thanked The Green Dragon Foundation and said, "SoundTown has been an excellent supplemental resource for our early readers! It makes learning letter sounds engaging and meaningful. Students are practicing important early literacy skills in a way that is fun and memorable for them. The videos are student-friendly and all of the extra resources that are included allow for additional practice that connects to student learning."

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