Complete Phonics and Reading Curriculum
Ages 5-8

This pick-up-and-teach manual provides everything you need to guide students ages 5-7 to the next level in reading and writing!

Foundations D Teacher's Manual

• Scripted lessons facilitate learning alongside your students
• Teach new phonograms and spelling rules
• Comprehension questions and activities in every lesson!
• Engaging lessons about types of texts and making connections across the curriculum
• Spelling Analysis charts and scripted examples
• Vocabulary lessons with Greek and Latin roots from the books students are reading
• Materials lists
• Assessments that also measure oral reading fluency
• Clearly laid-out objectives
• Easy to teach! No training required!

More About Foundations D

• Read classic children's books and nonfiction Foundations readers
• 6 new spelling rules including suffixing rules
• 8 Advanced Phonograms
• Fun activities develop speed and accuracy
• Develop comprehension skills for reading fiction and nonfiction texts, including inferencing, main idea, sequencing, identifying the elements of a story, and more
• Practice drawing connections between texts
• Beginning composition activities
• Create posters, lists, summaries, letters, and books
• Use morphemes to improve spelling and develop vocabulary
• Reading comprehension texts introduce students to series of books like Little Bear, Dodsworth, and Ling and Ting
• For students who have completed Foundations C

Learn More:

• About Foundations
• Foundations Level D
• FAQs
• Help Me Choose - a guide to where to begin

Recommended for

• Ages 5 to 8 (after completing level C)
• As a phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar curriculum for Grades 1-2
• As a complete language arts curriculum for Grades 1-2
• Young struggling readers
• Students with dyslexia

Prerequisites for Level D

• Foundations B and Foundations C.
• Students age 8 and up who are new to Logic of English should begin with Essentials.

What else do I need to teach Foundations D?

• Foundations D Student Workbook
• Basic Phonogram Cards
• 1 deck of Bookface Phonogram Game Cards
• 1 deck of either Cursive or Manuscript Phonogram Game Cards
• Phonogram Game Tiles
• Student Whiteboard
• Phonogram and Spelling Rule Quick Reference
• Spelling Analysis Card
• Spelling Rule Flash Cards
• Grammar Flash Cards
• Advanced Phonogram Flash Cards
• Foundations D Readers - set includes eight original nonfiction readers used in this level

• You will also need the 13 children's books used in the lessons. These may be purchased individually or as a set from Logic of English, or obtained from a library or bookseller of your choice.

  • Polar Opposites by Erik Brooks
  • Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
  • Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
  • A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer
  • Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! by Grace Lin
  • Henry and Mudge: The First Book by Cynthia Rylant
  • Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant
  • Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
  • Dodsworth in New York by Tim Egan
  • Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole by Wong Herbert Lee
  • Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman (available in The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books)
  • Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman (available in The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books)
  • The Best Nest by P.D. Eastman (available in The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books)

Ordering Information

• The Teacher’s Manual, Student Workbook, Foundations D Readers, and 13 children's books are all needed to teach Foundations D.
• There is only one version of the Foundations D Workbook, which may be used with either the cursive or manuscript handwriting style. 
• Foundations D builds systematically on material students have learned in levels A, B and C. It is not a starting point for the Foundations program. For older students beginning Logic of English, you may also wish to consider Essentials (for guidance, click Help me choose or read more on the LOE blog: Do we want Essentials or Foundations?).
• Available in print and PDF. Choose the format you want from the drop-down menu above. (Learn about downloads.)
• Order as a complete set with Level C and save 10%!

Handwriting Style

• Foundations D Workbook is printed in only ONE version. Student samples are in bookface, and students practice the handwriting they have learned.
• Lowercase letters are taught in Foundations A.
• Uppercase letters are taught in Foundations B.

Product Details

• Hard cover
• Full color
• 312 pages
• Product SKU: CFDTM1P
  ISBN 978-1-936706-38-9

• Downloadable PDFs in a ZIP file
• Product SKU: CFDTM1A
  ISBN 978-1-936706-48-8

PDF License

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