Spelling Grades 1

The primary goal of the kindergarten year is to teach students to read. Our program for phonics instruction is First Start Reading. Phonics is most effective when taught methodically, thoroughly, intensively, and logically. We begin with one sound for each letter and start blending consonants with short vowels immediately to form the three-letter phonetic words that children learn first. Additional sounds for letters are taught in the context of word families. Common sight words that break phonetic rules are taught and reviewed throughout the year. Formal phonics instruction continues after kindergarten within the Traditional Spelling program and literature guides.

Our approach to reading includes systematic phonics and daily exposure to good literature in the form of read-aloud books. These are scheduled in our Enrichment Guides and lesson plans. Good books captivate the imagination of children and motivate them to want to be readers. Good books teach vocabulary and a fascination with words. Good books teach geography, history, science, and, most importantly, the condition of human life. Good books open the mind of the child to the whole world.

Spelling

Traditional Spelling I-III

by Cheryl Lowe | Grades 1-3 Traditional Spelling is a comprehensive, phonetic approach to spelling, and is the culmination of our phonics program. Traditional Spelling provides your student with an extensive mastery-based study of phonics for spelling and reading. Each lesson features writing and oral dictation practice, color-coded phonogram activities, and short stories on the student's reading level that utilize that week's spelling words. For spelling for grades 4-8, see Spelling Workout E-H on Charter.MemoriaPress.com.

*Student $16.50 ea. Teacher $18.50 ea. *Practice Sheets $5.50 ea.

*Supplemental Wkbk.

(I & II only) $8.50 ea. Supplemental Wkbk. Key (I & II only) $8.50 ea.