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Read Aloud Book Suggestions for Each Letter of the Alphabet

Read Aloud Book Suggestions for Each Letter of the Alphabet

One of the multi-sensory activities suggested in Book One is for the teacher to read an interesting story containing the specific letter sound of each chapter of Letter Mastery. Lists of book suggestions are included in the book, but we have also provided a list here...

Trading the Alphabet for Hieroglyphics

Trading the Alphabet for Hieroglyphics

"An overwhelming body of evidence supports the belief that whether children learn to read, and how easily they learn to read, is largely dependent on the method by which they are taught. Reading programs that deemphasize the connection between letters and...

A Multi-Sensory Approach

A Multi-Sensory Approach

“The question is not, – how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education – but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life...

Where it All Began…

Where it All Began…

​I started writing Foundational Phonics after joining forces with my sister to home educate our children. As second generation homeschoolers, we had already been exposed to a multitude of phonics based programs. My mother had an eclectic way of pulling together bits...