Phonics First 3

Phonics First 3 is the third 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 3, students master common blends that come at the beginning and ending of words. For example, ‘nd’ as in ‘wind’, ‘tr’ as in ‘truck’, ‘sw’ as in ‘swim’ and so on.

Students then reinforce the acquisition of these skills by reading stories that are structured on the specific phonics skills that have been taught. They then demonstrate their comprehension ability by answering a series of simple questions based on the stories.

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.