Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! Daily Phonics helps young students, English learners, and struggling readers gain the phonemic awareness, decoding, and word-study skills necessary to read proficiently.
Common Core Top Pick for Reading - Foundational Skills
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics and Word Recognition
Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! Daily Phonics, Grade 1 helps students in first grade—including students learning English—develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.
The 32 weekly units in grade 1 cover:
Initial Consonants: b, f, h, k, m, p, s, v, j
Initial Consonants: c, d, y, l, r, n, w, g, t
Final Consonants: g, l, d, f, p, n, b, m, t
Initial and Final Consonants: d, m, t, l, p, s
Initial and Final Consonants: g, b, n, k, f, r
Short Vowel Sounds: a, i
Short Vowel Sounds: e, o, u
CVC Pattern
Long Vowel Sounds: a, e, o, i, u
CVCe Pattern
Syllabication
Long Vowel Sounds of y
Initial Consonant Blends: sn, st, sw, sk, sm, sp
Initial Consonant +1 Blends: fl, cl, sl, pl, bl, gl
Initial Consonant +r Blends: cr, fr, br, tr, gr, dr
Final Consonant Blends: st, lt, nk, lf, nt, mp
Initial and Final Consonant Blends: st, cl, mp, tr, lt, br, lf, sp, sk, pl
Initial Consonant Digraphs: sh, th, wh, ch
Final Consonant Digraphs: sh, ch, th
R-Controlled Vowels: ar, or, ur, er, ir
Hard and Soft c
Hard and Soft g
Double Consonants: ff, ss, ll, zz
Long a Vowel Digraphs: ai, ay
Long e Vowel Digraphs: ee, ea
Long i Spellings: ie, igh
Long o Vowel Digraphs: oe, ow, oa
Diphthongs: oi, oy
Diphthongs: ou, ow
The Sounds of oo
Plural Forms: s, es
Inflectional Endings: -ing, -ed