Common Core Top Pick for Reading - Foundational Skills

• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics and Word Recognition

Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! Daily Phonics, Grade 1 helps students in first grade—including students learning English—develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.

The 32 weekly units in grade 1 cover:

• Initial Consonants: b, f, h, k, m, p, s, v, j
• Initial Consonants: c, d, y, l, r, n, w, g, t
• Final Consonants: g, l, d, f, p, n, b, m, t
• Initial and Final Consonants: d, m, t, l, p, s
• Initial and Final Consonants: g, b, n, k, f, r
• Short Vowel Sounds: a, i
• Short Vowel Sounds: e, o, u
• CVC Pattern
• Long Vowel Sounds: a, e, o, i, u
• CVCe Pattern
• Syllabication
• Long Vowel Sounds of y
• Initial Consonant Blends: sn, st, sw, sk, sm, sp
• Initial Consonant +1 Blends: fl, cl, sl, pl, bl, gl
• Initial Consonant +r Blends: cr, fr, br, tr, gr, dr
• Final Consonant Blends: st, lt, nk, lf, nt, mp
• Initial and Final Consonant Blends: st, cl, mp, tr, lt, br, lf, sp, sk, pl
• Initial Consonant Digraphs: sh, th, wh, ch
• Final Consonant Digraphs: sh, ch, th
• R-Controlled Vowels: ar, or, ur, er, ir
• Hard and Soft c
• Hard and Soft g
• Double Consonants: ff, ss, ll, zz
• Long a Vowel Digraphs: ai, ay
• Long e Vowel Digraphs: ee, ea
• Long i Spellings: ie, igh
• Long o Vowel Digraphs: oe, ow, oa
• Diphthongs: oi, oy
• Diphthongs: ou, ow
• The Sounds of oo
• Plural Forms: s, es
• Inflectional Endings: -ing, -ed

Inside Look Daily Phonics Grade 1