BACKGROUND: phonological awareness and literacy. AIM: to verify the influence of phonological awareness therapy in the literacy process. METHOD: 46 children were submitted to an assessment involving the reading and writing of words and non-words and of phonological awareness. The experimental group was submitted to therapy. RESULTS: therapy had a positive influence in the performance of the children in the experimental group (76.47%) regarding tasks of phonological awareness and regarding their performance in reading and writing; only literate children were able to perform tasks involving phonemic awareness. CONCLUSION: phonological awareness therapy facilitates the acquisition of the alphabetic code.
Reading; Writing; Phonological Awareness; Learning