This guide has been carefully prepared to help you teach, improve, and refine students’ skills with engaging games, compelling lessons, interesting tips, and more! Through step-by-step instructions for group or one-on-one settings, you will teach students: 

• The remaining phonograms and spelling rules
• New roots and affixes
• Why some sounds assimilate
• Past, present, and future tenses
• How to identify and punctuate dependent clauses

Every lesson is simple to teach, fun to learn, and easy to follow! No prior preparation or planning is needed.

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The scripted lessons, interactive games, and fun activities in this guide make it easy for teachers and parents to teach, review, and evaluate students’ progress as they learn: 

• New multi-letter phonograms
• Suffixing rules
• Irregular verbs and pronouns
• Clauses and adjectival phrases
• And more

This pick-up-and-teach manual is filled with multi-level instructions ideal for both group and one-on-one settings. The instructions in this guide are carefully crafted to help you assess and fulfill the individual needs of all your students.

*Essentials is an integrated reading, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary curriculum for ages 8 to adult.

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This multi-level manual contains differentiated instruction, making it perfect for a wide variety of learning settings. Essentials 8-15 Teacher’s Guide will assist you in teaching students:

• Multi-letter phonograms
• Spelling at three levels
• Contractions
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Parts of speech
• And more

The scripted lessons, assessments, and tips will help you deliver quality, systematic instruction quickly and easily.

*Essentials is an integrated reading, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary curriculum for ages 8 to adult.

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This comprehensive, multi-level guide will help you teach concepts ranging from phonemic awareness and systematic phonics to morphology and grammar rules. Designed to help you prepare instructions with ease, Essentials 1-7 Teacher’s Guide contains:

• Scripted lessons
• Three levels of differentiated instruction
• Assessments 
• Teacher’s tips
• Interactive games and activities 
• And much more

*Essentials is an integrated reading, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary curriculum for ages 8 to adult that explains how English really works!

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Intended to be used in conjunction with the Essentials Reader, the Essentials Reader Teacher’s Guide prepares students for academic reading and writing through:

• Pre-reading
• Post-reading
• Cross-curricular activities
• Composition 

Experts have designed this guide to be used after each corresponding Essentials unit is taught. This helps students reinforce their knowledge of phonograms and spelling rules while learning vocabulary and decoding skills.

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This student activity book is filled with dozens of activities, practice pages, and templates to help students develop their:

• Pre-reading skills
• Comprehension skills
• Vocabulary
• Note-taking skills
• Composition skills
• Handwriting skills 

A companion to the Essentials Reader Teacher’s Guide and the Essentials Reader, this student activity book is an easy tool for teaching reading, writing, and spelling.

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From acorn hunting to the history of chocolate, Essentials Reader contains high-interest texts that target students’ comprehension and critical thinking skills. This reader grows in complexity as new phonograms, spelling rules, and high-frequency words are taught. Stories range from text using only single-letter phonograms to poems to full articles.

At the beginning of each story, teachers and students will find a list of “challenging” words to decode before reading the text. Decoding these words prior to reading the text helps students focus on comprehending the content rather than sounding out words. 

The Essentials Reader is 100% decodable – without guessing and without sight word memorization – when introduced as directed in the Essentials Teacher’s Guides. 

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This guide can serve as a reference tool in the classroom or at home. The Essentials Grammar Rule Quick Reference can help you answer any question with clear and concise definitions, sample words, and sentences. This valuable guide will help you

• Identify nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and pronouns
• Explain the correct use of punctuation
• Recognize and fix run-on sentences and fragments
• And more

Although the Essentials Grammar Rule Quick Reference is designed to be used with the Essentials curriculum, it can supplement any language arts program.

*The comma rules follow The Chicago Manual of Style.

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From jittery jellyfish in a jar to koala kisses, your child will be surrounded with funny characters and silly phrases that will help them become familiar with 26 letter-sound correspondences!  

A playful introduction to the sounds of the alphabet, each page includes a letter, sample words, and catchy phrases.

With Doodling Dragons, your child will discover that:

• C makes two sounds: cat and rice
• A makes three sounds: apples, snakes, wash
• Y makes four sounds: yell, mystery, type, baby

Discover 49 additional multi-letter phonograms in Whistling Whales and Knitting Knights. Together, these delightful books introduce all the phonograms that are needed to decode English words. 

Winner of a 2013 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Doodling Dragons: An ABC Book of Sounds is suited for children ages 4-7.

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From biking mice and wishful wolves to puppy’s paws in purple skates, your children’s imaginations will reach new horizons.

Without realizing it, children will learn all the sounds of A-Z and how to decode unfamiliar words while coloring one of their favorite books!

This 26-page coloring book has been designed to improve your child’s decoding and spelling skills by teaching them all the sounds of the 26 letters.

 This Phonogram Coloring Book contains:

• 100+ drawings designed to enhance your child’s creativity
• 26 color-coded phonograms
• My phonogram mastery chart

Suited for ages 4-7, Doodling Dragons Phonogram Coloring Book is a great addition to Foundations A.

The A-Z phonograms are also featured in Doodling Dragons: An ABC Book of Sounds and the Doodling Dragons ABC Songs album!

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The Basic Phonogram Flash Cards contain:

• Single-letter and multi-letter phonograms
• Sample words 
• Spelling aids for quick teacher reference

These are ideal for any classroom teacher, homeschool parent, or private tutor who wants to teach these essential building blocks of English.

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These flash cards will give you and your students a deeper understanding of multi-letter graphemes, loan words, and English words with foreign roots!  

A continuation from the 75 Basic Phonograms, the Advanced Phonogram Flash Cards introduce students to advanced phonograms and their languages of origin. 

Advanced phonograms are either rare or found only in advanced vocabulary words such as: 

• The PN in pneumonia
• The MN in hymn 
• The KH in khaki

The Advanced Phonogram Flash Cards contain pronunciation aids, sample words, languages of origin, and spelling tips, making them ideal for anyone who wants to teach the essential building blocks of English.

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