Valerie Petrillo
Description
Get ready for school! Do you want to help your child learn to read but don't know where to begin? This beginning readers workbook (second in a series)
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can help! A handy parent section guides you in teaching blends: two letters that both make their own sound(such as fl in flag), digraphs: two letters that make ONE sound (such as ch in chip), and long vowel silent e words (such as cake). A story with the skill lesson is followed by three phonics pages. An answer key is included as well. 18 units in all.
The phonics units include the following:
CONSONANT BLENDS
1. l blends: The Club
2. r blends: The Crab
3. sk blends: Skip
4. s blends: Slap the Squid
DIGRAPHS
5. ff, ll, ss, zz: A Mess
6. ck: Mack the Duck
7. sh: The Fish Shack
8. voiced th: Lots of Shells
9. unvoiced th: Thick with Sloths
10. ch: Chip and the Chick
11. wh, ph: Ralph and Phil
12. ng: Our Gang
13. nk: The Ice Rink
VCe: (Vowel, Consonant, Silent E)
14. a: First Rate Cake
15. i: The Bike Ride
16. o: The Apple Grove
17. e: Theme Party
18. u: Sand Dunes Park
CHECK OUT ALL THE BOOKS IN THE LEARN TO READ SERIES:
Book One: LEARN TO READ: 27 Decodable Stories and Phonics Activities AGES 5-7, Kindergarten and First Grade, BEGINNING READERS
PHONICS SKILLS:
Short vowel consonant words (CVC consonant-vowel-consonant) such as: cap and pig.
Book Two: LEARN TO READ: 18 Decodable Readers PHONICS STORIES AND ACTIVITIES Blends, Digraphs, Long Vowel Sounds AGES 4-8 Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade
PHONICS SKILLS:
Blends: A blend is two consonants in a row. Each consonant says its own name. An example is sp in spot.
Digraphs: A digraph is two letters in a row that make one sound. Some examples are: sh in ship and ck in back.
Long vowel words with silent e at the end. Examples would be: cake (a) and bike (i).
Book Three: LEARN TO READ: 22 Decodable Readers PHONICS STORIES AND ACTIVITIES R-Controlled Vowels, Vowel Teams, Diphthongs AGES 4-8 Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade
PHONICS SKILLS:
R-Controlled vowels: Words where the r changes the sound of the vowel. Examples are: car and fur.
Soft c and soft g: For example rice and page.
Common endings: es, ed, ing,
Vowel teams: Two or more vowels in a row that make one sound. such as ai in paid.
Diphthongs: A diphthong is when two vowels make two sounds as they glide together. For example oi in oil.
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