Reading and Phonics Curriculum
Ages 4-7

The Foundations Level A Student Workbook provides a colorful array of games and learning opportunities to engage your student in fun, multi-sensory activities that lay a complete foundation for reading, handwriting, and spelling.

Foundations A Student Workbook

• Not your typical workbook!
• Filled with fun activities that get students up and moving
• Choose a cursive or manuscript version!
• Four handwriting line sizes to accommodate varying student abilities
• Six tear-out readers for the student to create
• Colorful, engaging illustrations
• Fun word-level and phrase-level comprehension activities

More about Foundations A

• Learn all the sounds of A-Z
• Develop phonemic awareness skills including blending and segmenting one-syllable words
• Identify initial and final sounds
• Learn to read and spell short vowel CVC words
• Learn to read and spell consonant blends
• Students create 6 delightful readers
• Learn to write lowercase A-Z in either manuscript or cursive
• Cursive or manuscript handwriting modeled in the workbook
• Learn to read 87 high-frequency words and gain tools to read hundreds more
• Comprehension and fluency activities

Learn More

• About Foundations
• Foundations Level A
• FAQs

Recommended for

• Ages 4 to 7
• As a phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar curriculum for Grades K-1
• As a complete language arts curriculum for Grades K-1
• Beginning readers
• Young struggling readers
• Young students with dyslexia

Handwriting Style

• The Foundations A and B Teacher's Manuals include instructions for teaching BOTH manuscript and cursive.
• The Foundations A and B Workbooks are sold in TWO versions, manuscript and cursive. Choose the version that matches the handwriting style you are teaching. 
• Learn why we recommend beginning with cursive.

What else do I need to teach Foundations A?

• Foundations A Teacher's Manual
• Doodling Dragons: An ABC Book of Sounds
• Basic Phonogram Flash Cards
• 1 deck of Bookface Phonogram Game Cards
• 1 deck of either Cursive or Manuscript Phonogram Game Cards
• Phonogram Game Tiles
• Rhythm of Handwriting Tactile Cards - either Cursive or Manuscript 
• Rhythm of Handwriting Quick Reference - either Cursive or Manuscript 
• Student Whiteboard
• Phonogram and Spelling Rule Quick Reference
• Spelling Analysis Card

Ordering Information

• Choose either the Manuscript or the Cursive version of the workbook in the drop-down menu above.
• Foundations A Teacher's Manual includes both Manuscript and Cursive teaching instructions.
• Both the Teacher’s Manuals and Student Workbooks are needed to teach Foundations.
• Save when you buy the complete set!
• Available in print and PDF. Choose the format you want from the drop-down menu above. (Learn about downloads.)

Product Details

1st Edition (2013)

Printed Book

• High-quality paperback
• Full color
• Perforated pages for easy tear-out
• 6 student readers included in the back
• 230 pages
• 1st Edition 
• Weight: 1.4 lb.
• SKU, Cursive: CFACW1P
  ISBN: 978-1-936706-31-0
• SKU, Manuscript: CFAMW1P
  ISBN: 978-1-936706-32-7

• Downloadable PDFs in a ZIP file
• Includes 6 student readers to be assembled as a comprehension activity
• See license information below
• SKU, Cursive: CFACW1A
  ISBN: 978-1-936706-41-9
• SKU, Manuscript: CFAMW1A
  ISBN: 978-1-936706-42-6

PDF License

Copyright Notice: Our digital downloads come with a limited reproduction license. Licensed users may use the files on any device or computer and may print them, but may not sell, share, copy, transfer, or distribute files or prints to people not covered by the license.

Single Student/Family License: This digital license is for use by ONE student or the members of ONE immediate family, including parents, children, and grandparents. If you are teaching additional students, you must purchase an additional Single Student/Family License, or purchase the Limited Reproduction Annual Classroom License.

A classroom license is also available.

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