"The IPA Program was developed as a supplemental curriculum to be used with small groups of children in the classroom. The program focuses on four phonological awareness skills, each taught for 3 weeks: rhyming, initial sound, final sound, and complete segmentation. Children participate in 30-minute sessions three times per week for 12 weeks total. After this period, children's phonological awareness skills should have improved enough to be prepared for formal reading instruction"--