LOE Foundations: Complete Phonics, Reading, Handwriting, and Spelling Curriculum for Ages 4-7

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:
- For students who have completed Foundations C
- 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

Recommended for:
- Ages 5 to 7 (after completing level C). Great for some eight-year-olds as well!
- 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 (lessons 41-80) and Foundations C (lessons 81-120).
- Students age 8 and up who are new to Logic of English will typically find Essentials the best starting point. Some eight-year-olds prefer the playful, high-energy style of Foundations and will find it the best fit, moving quickly through B to review and fill in gaps before focusing on levels C and D.

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
- 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 obtained from a library.
- 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 Yee
- 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)

Optional items:
- Advanced Phonogram Flash Cards - 48 advanced phonograms, 8 of which are introduced in Foundations D.
- The Teacher’s Manual, Student Workbook, Foundations D Readers, and 13 children's books are all needed to teach Foundations D.

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

2nd Edition
Compatible with any Foundations D Student Workbook. Now includes a list of second grade standards as well as kindergarten and first grade standards.