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!

Product Details

1st Edition (2013)

• 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
• SKU, 20-Pack Cursive: CFACW1P20
  ISBN: 978-1-936706-31-0
• SKU, Manuscript: CFAMW1P
• SKU, 20-Pack Manuscript: CFAMW1P20
  ISBN: 978-1-936706-32-7
• This product is no longer available as a Single Student / Family PDF. Learn more.

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