About Us

How Sound Town Began

Twenty-five years ago, Roxanne Stall created Sound Town to teach her four small children how to read.

At the time, there was a serious lack of systemic, simplified approaches to teach reading. Phonics was not even being taught across the country.

While there was plenty out there that taught the 26 letters of the alphabet, Roxanne set about creating what did not yet exist—a structured, engaging program to teach the sounds of the other 50 letter combinations.

Inspired by Anna Ingram’s method of putting letters on houses as a method for teaching letter awareness, Roxanne began to do the same with each letter combination, drawing them on little paper houses.

Until she came to the “ee” –the double e phoneme—which just fit so well on a teepee instead. And the “oo” had to go on a schoolhouse. Suddenly there was a cook stealing a book from the library next door, and Er Street was created to teach the “er,” “or,” and “ir” sounds.

And so it went until she had created an entire western prairie town, a place filled with lively characters each representing a phoneme letter group.

As she continued to develop Sound Town, adding other necessary components to the program, her dear friends Victoria Grenier and Deborah Mack contributed their expertise, with Victoria helping with primary lessons and Deborah writing and performing the engaging songs on the Sound Town CDs.

Twenty-five years, personal computers, and the Internet later, Sound Town has expanded from that little Montana boom town to a complete program with strong fundamentals that educators, parents, and parent-educators alike can use to captivate their child and develop their love of learning.

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Thanks for taking the time to learn a little more about us!

Please feel free to send us an email or call us if you have any questions, or need more information about any of our products. We are always happy to hear from you!

Be sure to check out our blog, It Takes a Town if you want strategies for teaching phonics. And hear from our long-time customers over at Testimonials.

If you have your own Sound Town success story we would love to hear it! Just use the contact form below!

Phone:

(888) 655-1011

Email:

soundtownphonics@gmail.com