Phonics First 2

Phonics First 2 is the second in a series of five comprehensive, fully integrated, beginning reading programs that incorporate the skills of word attack, comprehension and spelling.

Phonics First goes from the earliest stage of letter-sound recognition to teach, at each successive stage, increasingly sophisticated phonics skills. At each of these stages Phonics First promotes the development of spelling and comprehension ability. The interactive nature of the instruction ensures that students remain highly motivated to master the skills taught in this carefully structured beginning reading program.

The key to the success of Phonics First is its careful construction and solid educational foundation. Students are asked to read only those words containing the sounds or rules they have been taught, and only then are they tested to demonstrate their progress.

In Phonics First 2, students master basic single letter-sound relationships. They start by consolidating their knowledge of the sounds the letters make, and then go on to blend these sounds together to read simple three-sound words. For example, how the sounds ‘b, ‘a’ and ‘t’ combine to make the word ‘bat’.

Students also expand their reading skills by learning early, basic sight words and are given carefully structured phonics stories to reinforce the reading skills they have acquired.

When students complete all 5 programs they will have attained the skills they need to cope with a wide range of reading experiences and will be well prepared to develop the independent reading skills taught in the Reading Freedom series of programs.