Lay a
strong foundation for reading with Primary Phonics, a solid and comprehensive
reading program that provides options for pacing, additional systematic
practice, and reading comprehension. Components include workbooks, storybooks,
optional comprehension workbooks, supplemental practice workbooks, and teacher
guides. Teacher guides include lesson plans, pacing information, pretests, and
more.
Level K
begins by teaching consonant sounds and includes cumulative review throughout,
along with short printing practice (traditional lowercase) for each letter.
Additional supplements include the Consonant Workbook for independent
work after the consonant lessons, as well as the More Consonant Workbook
with even more practice. Beginning in Level 1, color words are used frequently.
If these are unfamiliar, consider the Color Workbook that teaches eight
color words as sight words. The recommended Picture Dictionary uses
picture-word matches rather than definitions for nearly 2,500 frequently-used
words, including most words used in Primary Phonics, and is scheduled
for practice in the Level K Teacher Guide.
Levels
1-6 include phonics and comprehension workbooks as well as a storybook set. The
Teacher Guide lists components used in each lesson: workbooks,
comprehension workbooks, and storybook pages. A separate teacher guide, Thinking
About Mac and Tab, is available for comprehension practice and includes
discussion questions for each story as well as an answer key to each level’s Thinking
About Mac and Tab Comprehension Workbook.
Phonics
topics taught per level:
- Level
1: Short vowels, six common sight words, and basic color words
- Level
2: Long vowels (a, i, o, u) and vowel diagraphs (ie, oe, ee, oa, ai, ea)
- Level
3: Plurals, initial and final blends, compound words, two syllable words, and
“are”
- Level
4: Consonant diagraphs and 4-controlled vowels
- Level
5: Additional vowel combinations, qu, three sounds of y, special sounds, and
open syllables
- Level
6: More plural sounds, two-syllable words, compound words, soft c, soft g, and
diphthongs gu, dge, ph, ie, oi, oy, ight, ow, and au
More
Primary Phonics Workbooks
and Primary Phonics Storybooks are available at some levels to provide
systematic practice if needed.
The Primary
Phonics Intervention Guide 1-6 with Blackline Masters by EPS
Learning is a 60-lesson multisensory resource designed for struggling dyslexic
readers in grades K-2. The program follows the scope and sequence
of the Primary Phonics decodable storybooks and provides systematic instruction
using a phonetic coding system and
employing multisensory techniques. Provides systematic, direct instruction in
phonic elements and word coding, word and sentence dictation, and comprehension
and challenge activities. Comes with a separate book of blackline masters providing
extra written comprehension questions and reinforcement pages as well as a classroom
coding chart. ~Amber
