Phonemic awareness has been observed to be a strong predictor of later reading skills (Ziegler, 2018, Ecalle & Magnan, 2015. Increasingly, recent studies specialized in orthophonic reeducation show that phonemic awareness can be trained by musical programs (Patscheke, Degé & Schwarzer, 2016). Few studies, according to the scientific literature, have developed a combined method that associates musical skills and phonemic awareness at the same time, for French speakers. In contrast with training programs, the originality of the present study consists in ecological conditions which fit in with teaching practices. If phonemic awareness and music skills share common information treatment mechanisms, the effect of a combined learning method should enhance phonemic awareness skills compared to a traditional one. The present experiment evaluated the effect of bimodal instruction that associates phonemic awareness with musical education on phonemic skills. Fifty-three children from four different classes (25 girls, 28 boys) aged 5 years old and 8 months (3.36) were assigned to two groups. We compared bimodal instruction to phonemic awareness (experimental group, n =33) to a traditional one (control group, n=20). Each learning conditions lasted 7 weeks and included two 30 minutes learning sessions per week. Children prerequisites to phonemic awareness have been measured with rhyme recognition and syllable suppression tasks. Four tasks divided in 12 items (3 increasing levels of difficulty) measured phonemic skills in recognition and suppression (initial, final). The same test was applied before and after the learning session. Each item's answers were rated from 0 to 1. Results analyses (ANOVA) show better improvement on epiphonemic skills in posttest from the experimental group that from the control one (F(1.52)=14.440, p=.00038). These positive results may be explained by a multi-sensory and multimodal instruction.