LEARN TO READ: 18 Decodable Readers PHONICS STORIES AND ACTIVITIES Blends, Digraphs, Long Vowel Sounds AGES 4-8 Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade

Get ready for school! Do you want to help your child learn to read but don’t know where to begin? This beginning readers workbook (second in a series) can help! A handy parent section guides you in teaching blends: two letters that both make their own sound(such as fl in flag), digraphs: two letters that make ONE sound (such as ch in chip), and long vowel silent e words (such as cake). A story with the skill lesson is followed by three phonics pages. An answer key is included as well. 18 units in all. The phonics units include the following: CONSONANT BLENDS 1. l blends: The Club 2. r blends: The Crab 3. sk blends: Skip 4. s blends: Slap the Squid DIGRAPHS 5. ff, ll, ss, zz: A Mess 6. ck: Mack the Duck 7. sh: The Fish Shack 8. voiced th: Lots of Shells 9. unvoiced th: Thick with Sloths 10. ch: Chip and the Chick 11. wh, ph: Ralph and Phil 12. ng: Our Gang 13. nk: The Ice Rink VCe: (Vowel, Consonant, Silent E) 14. a: First Rate Cake 15. i: The Bike Ride 16. o: The Apple Grove 17. e: Theme Party 18. u: Sand Dunes Park CHECK OUT ALL THE BOOKS IN THE LEARN TO READ SERIES: Book One: LEARN TO READ: 27 Decodable Stories and Phonics Activities AGES 5-7, Kindergarten and First Grade, BEGINNING READERS PHONICS SKILLS: Short vowel consonant words (CVC consonant-vowel-consonant) such as: cap and pig. Book Two: LEARN TO READ: 18 Decodable Readers PHONICS STORIES AND ACTIVITIES Blends, Digraphs, Long Vowel Sounds AGES 4-8 Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade PHONICS SKILLS: Blends: A blend is two consonants in a row. Each consonant says its own name. An example is sp in spot. Digraphs: A digraph is two letters in a row that make one sound. Some examples are: sh in ship and ck in back. Long vowel words with silent e at the end. Examples would be: cake (a) and bike (i). Book Three: LEARN TO READ: 22 Decodable Readers PHONICS STORIES AND ACTIVITIES R-Controlled Vowels, Vowel Teams, Diphthongs AGES 4-8 Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade PHONICS SKILLS: R-Controlled vowels: Words where the r changes the sound of the vowel. Examples are: car and fur. Soft c and soft g: For example rice and page. Common endings: es, ed, ing, Vowel teams: Two or more vowels in a row that make one sound. such as ai in paid. Diphthongs: A diphthong is when two vowels make two sounds as they glide together. For example oi in oil.