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, comprehension workbooks, supplemental practice workbooks, and teacher
guides. Teacher guides provide the majority of the instruction and 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.
Grade 1 consists of Levels 1-3 and Grade 2 consists of Levels 4-6. Level components include workbooks, storybooks, and comprehension workbooks. The Teacher Guide lists the components that will be used at the beginning of each lesson: workbooks, comprehension workbooks, and storybook pages.
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. 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.
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