Kindergarten to Grade 2 · printable course

Learning to Read: Systematic Phonics

Kindergarten to Grade 2 · 98 pages · 36 lessons · PDF, print at home

A complete first course in reading, built on systematic synthetic phonics: every sound explicitly taught, every practice word decodable from sounds already learned, and checked mechanically, not just promised. Clara teaches the oral half out loud (blending, segmenting, sound games); the child taps printed words to show they can read them. The app reads every question aloud, so a non-reader can use it, because reading the ANSWERS is the skill. 36 weeks from four letter sounds to reading a real book.

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Every unit and lesson in this book, in order. The same lessons are taught online at lettersanddevotion.com, so a family can move between paper and screen.

Learning to Read: Systematic Phonics

36 lessons · try a lesson online free

Unit 1: First Sounds, First Words6 lessons
  1. 1.The sounds s, a, t, p
  2. 2.The sounds i, n — and real blending
  3. 3.The sounds m, d, g, o
  4. 4.The sounds c, k, e, u, r
  5. 5.The sounds h, b, f, l
  6. 6.The sounds j, v, w, x, y, z — and the word 'the'
Unit 2: Words With More in Them6 lessons
  1. 7.Reading whole sentences — and the words 'I' and 'a'
  2. 8.Two letters, one sound: sh
  3. 9.More hand-holders: ch and th
  4. 10.The endings ng and ck
  5. 11.Two sounds at the start: bl, st, tr and friends
  6. 12.Big finish: reading like a champion — and 'to' and 'no'
Unit 3: The Vowels Grow Up8 lessons
  1. 13.Silent e makes the vowel say its name: a_e
  2. 14.Silent e with i and o: i_e, o_e
  3. 15.Two vowels together: ee and ea
  4. 16.The teams ai and ay
  5. 17.The teams oa and ow (the 'oh' one)
  6. 18.The sound igh — and 'said' and 'was'
  7. 19.Longer words: two chunks
  8. 20.Checkpoint: read a whole little story
Unit 4: The Tricky Vowels8 lessons
  1. 21.Bossy r: ar
  2. 22.Bossy r: or, er
  3. 23.Bossy r: ir and ur
  4. 24.The teams oo (moon) and oo (book)
  5. 25.The loud teams: ou and ow
  6. 26.The teams oi and oy
  7. 27.The teams aw and ew — and 'they' and 'what'
  8. 28.Checkpoint: every vowel sound you own
Unit 5: Real Reading8 lessons
  1. 29.Endings that do work: -s, -ing
  2. 30.Endings from the past: -ed
  3. 31.Soft c and soft g
  4. 32.Silent letters: kn, wr, mb
  5. 33.Three-chunk words
  6. 34.Reading smoothly: punctuation is stage directions
  7. 35.Tricky-word round-up
  8. 36.You are a reader: the final story