The graphs below record a portion of the research showing the success rate of Reading By Ear.  The bar lines represent kindergarten children at a public school in Denver, Colorado. A high percentage of these children came from homes where the parents never completed high school. They are children who have not been read to, whose vocabulary has not been enriched, and whose reading readiness is below average.

The children were tested when they entered Kindergarten in the fall of 2000, throughout the year, and were given a final test when they completed Kindergarten in the spring of 2001. Graph A records a variety of phonemic awareness skills: rhyming, insertion, deletion, alliteration, syllable recognition, segmenting, blending, etc. The test results were excellent.

Graph B shows the test results of sound recognition: In a one-on-one test, each child was asked the sound made by each of the letters of the alphabet (plus ch, sh, th, and ng).