Resources for homeschool families

Materials & Resources

• First Readers (your choice from reader vlibrary) on Menu Bar
• Primer vlibrary Your choice of primers on Menu Bar
• How to Teach Phonics (Book)      PDF     DOC  (If this has not been learned yet)
• Flashcard Sight-Words and Activities
• Interactive online book to practice reading (Tara and Ben)
• Report  or Reading Report for processing reading
• Choose one of the following:
  
  • McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book 1-31
  • Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 1
  • Sander's Union Speller pages 1-23
  • Swinton's Word Primer Although this is a one year course, it is fine to break it up into several years if that is what your student needs
• Spelling Lessons Worksheets
• Student dictionary for new words.
• Manuscript handwriting Workbook- Maintain skills with More Script practice.
• Optional: blank stationery with nice borders to encourage writing practice
• Three letter Words Flashcards Silent e
• Vowel Teams ar ir er ur Blends More Blends Phonics Charts 1-5
• Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Establishing sight vocabulary flashcards for printing out.
• Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
• Phonics Set From mainlesson.com

Topics to be covered this year

• "Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896)."
• Phonetic analysis Beginning Phonics Long AEIOU
• Reading informally: names, labels, signs
• Creating stories and poems
• Telling favorite stories
• Organizing ideas and impressions
• Book reports and critiques: Child can give more detail in summarizing a story.
• Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
• Introduction to punctuation and capitalization

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Structural analysis
• Enunciation and pronunciation
• Keyboarding Skills Worksheet Game
• Phone Skills
• Word search Factory (Download free)

Extras:
Supplemental Reading Children's Bible Stories
Adventures of Inky and Gus
                     Gus and Inky Rhyming Words
                                        Compound Words
"Get ready to Read" Activity Cards

                             Literacy Checklist