Foundations A Teacher's Manual
Reading and Phonics Curriculum
Ages 4-7
This pick-up-and-teach manual provides everything you need to introduce students ages 4-7 to reading and writing!
Foundations A Teacher's Manual
- Extensive phonemic awareness activities that build from feeling and seeing how the mouth forms sounds to blending and segmenting one-syllable words
- Lowercase instruction for both manuscript and cursive included
- Instructions for 28 phonogram games
- Speech tips to help students who cannot say some of the sounds
- Ideas for multi-sensory fun
- Challenge activities
- Scripted lessons facilitate teachers learning alongside their students
- Materials lists
- Teacher tips that help you to answer students' questions
- Spelling Analysis lists showing how to mark words and sample scripting
- Clearly laid out objectives
- Easy to teach! No training required!
- Guided assessments to monitor student progress
More about Foundations A
- Fun activities that get students up and moving!
- 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
- Learn to read 87 high-frequency words
- Comprehension and fluency activities
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Recommended for
- Ages 4 to 7
- As a phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar curriculum for Grades K-2
- As a complete language arts curriculum for Grades K-1
- Beginning readers
- Young struggling readers
- 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 from the drop-down menu above.
- Learn why we recommend beginning with cursive.
What else do I need to teach Foundations A?
- Foundations A Student Workbook Choose Cursive or Manuscript
- 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.
- Foundations A Teacher's Manual includes both Manuscript and Cursive teaching instructions.
- Both the Teacher’s Manual and Student Workbook are needed to teach Foundations.
- All instructions for games are included within the manual, so it is not necessary to purchase the Phonogram and Spelling Game Book.
- Available in print and PDF. Choose the format you want from the drop-down menu above. (Learn about downloads.)
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Product Details
Printed book- Full color
- Hardcover
- 231 pages
- Weight: 2.3 lb.
- Product SKU: CFATM1P
ISBN 978-1-936706-30-3
- Digital download
- See user license information below
- Product SKU: CFATM1A
ISBN 978-1-936706-40-2
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 Teacher License: This digital license is for use by only ONE teacher. Multiple teachers in the same school or multiple parents in the same co-op must each have their own purchased license.
Logic of English Cursive & Manuscript School Fonts © David Occhino Design.
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