Alphabet Series Volume 1

This volume of 18 vocabulary controlled selections by Frances Bloom, Mary Geiger, et al., enables students to apply their phonics skills in context. The stories, which increase in difficulty as the lessons progress, help students practice target words? and review sounds and sight words. The stories enable emergent and struggling reader to practice skills while they read motivating, engaging stories. The Volume 1 storybooks correspond to the first third of the lessons in the manual.

Skills Addressed

• Consonant sounds
• Consonant-vowel-consonant words (short vowels)
• Consonant digraphs
• Two-syllable compound words
• Doubling rule for ff-ll-ss-zz
• Plural words
• Sight word recognition
• Automaticity and fluency
• Beginning comprehension

Part of the Recipe for Reading Series, a comprehensive, multisensory, phonics-based reading program that presents a skill sequence and lesson structure designed for beginning, at-risk, or struggling readers.