Mastering first grade phonics and spelling is fun and exciting with this book that combines language arts activities with puzzles and humor to lower the barriers to learning and build essential skills. Phonics and spelling are important building blocks for future learning, and Highlights(TM) brings Fun with a Purpose® into these essential activities for first graders. Our award-winning content blends important language skills with puzzles, humor, and playful art, which makes learning exciting and fun. Students will learn blends, digraphs, vowel sounds, spelling patterns, decoding skills,and more--all designed to help them to improve and build confidence in the classroom.

Build essential skills while having fun with Home Workbooks! Now updated with fun, colorful pages and engaging art, each book measures 7" x 9.25" and is filled with 64 pages of age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games. These teacher-approved books are perfect for home, school, summer breaks, and road trips! Skills covered include beginning and ending consonants, blends and digraphs, long and short vowel sounds, word families, and more! An incentive chart and 140 full-color stickers are also included to help parents or teachers track student progress. Home Workbooks are available for prekindergarten through grade 3 students, and feature titles in a wide variety of skill areas to suit any need.

"Each Month-by-month phonics book explains how to help all children learn to read and write through systematic, multilevel instruction as part of the Working with words block in the Four-Blocks framework. These books include step-by-step activities that instill the desire to learn to read and write, develop phonemic awareness, encourage letter and sound recognition, teach essential language and print concepts, and extend vocabulary"--Back cover

Hooked on Phonics Hooked on Spelling helps children develop a solid foundation in spelling rules and patterns because it was designed with the knowledge of how kids learn best: by combining fun, computer-based lessons with workbook practice and real-world activities. - Includes 2 audio CDs, 2 colorful workbooks, write-on/wipe-off Spelling Study Card, progress posters with stickers and a parent's guide. - Designed for children ages 5 to 8. - System requirements for software: Windows 2000 or later. Mac OS X v. 10.5 or earlier.

An easy and fun approach to teaching your child to read A stand-alone phonics & reading program, flexible for use in either kindergarten or first gradeA workbook filled with lessons, instructions, and suggested hands-on activities for a full semester of studySuggested hands-on activities will utilize materials typically found in the kitchen or playroom (e.g., crayons, markers, flour, rice, play-dough) This unique curriculum will take your student on a journey from the beginning of creation to the Resurrection of Christ as they learn each letter and corresponding sound. Designed to meet the needs of students who are ready to begin writing, as well as those who may not have mastered the hand-eye coordination skills yet that are needed for writing.

Phonics for First Grade features 64 pages of easy-to-follow activities and practice that engage children’s skills in spelling and reading—specifically consonant sound, long and short vowel sounds, blends, and digraphs. The Skills for School series makes learning simple with colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions. Each book focuses on different early learning skills, allowing you to choose the book that best fits your child’s areas of improvement. The practice pages include fun activities that help build your child’s confidence in the subject matter and school. Each book also includes fun stickers that are great for motivating and rewarding your child.

Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade was first published in 1980 by Hazel Logan Loring, who had taught it for many years in her first grade classes. It features instruction in directional guidance, which helps prevent reversals in reading. It has also proven very valuable in helping older students with reading problems. The accompanying Blend Phonics Fluency Drills were written by Mr. Donald L. Potter to help students to develop high levels of decoding fluency (accuracy and speed). The Fluency Drills have proven particularly valuable in helping struggling readers to overcome the whole-word guessing habit and improve reading efficiency.

"MCP "Plaid" Phonics" Level A helps students become fluent readers. Activities help students develop spelling (encoding), recognize words in context, and use phonics in word-building and personal writing. It provides teachers with a direct model for integrating phonics and reading through reading activities.

301 skill-building pages that give kids practice with vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, multiplication, fractions, and everything they'll need to succeed as students.

"Supplementary phonics program designed to teach phonemic decoding to students who have not yet mastered those skills. The program was originally conceived for students in grades 3-6, but may also be used for students in grades 1 and 3, for lower performing students in upper grades, and for adults learning to read English."--Curriculum Associates website, accessed 5/15/2009.