Summer 2024 Catalog

LANGUAGE ARTS Learning to Read

First Grade In first grade, your young reader will hone his reading skills and learn the phonics rules governing long vowel sounds and words such as knew, match, fudge, adoption, sacrifice, and caught . To reinforce the phonics lessons presented in Little Stories for Little Folks B , have your child complete the appropriate pages in Catholic Heritage Handwriting, Level 1 E . Phonics-based lessons in My Very First Catholic Speller F will introduce your first grader to basic spelling and grammar skills through rhyming, matching, and cut-and paste exercises, while cardstock letter tiles give the child practice in forming words. Once your child completes the stories in Little Stories for Little Folks, Level 2 , he is ready for the supplemental reading practice provided by What Do You Like to Do… and What Can You Do … G . These Catholic easy readers and keepsake journals offer more stories for the “hungry” eager reader, while providing encouraging practice for the reluctant reader. The books also include journal pages that introduce writing composition and create a precious record of the child’s responses. (See pg. 24 for more details.) By the end of the year, your child will possess the word-attack skills to decipher virtually any word he may encounter. Graduates of the Little Stories program are usually reading at a second- to third grade level by the end of first grade. Next stop on the reading railroad? Chapter books . . . beginning with Bigger Stories for Little Folks, a volume of stories specially designed to reinforce the young reader’s phonics skills! (See pg. 25 for more details.)

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Student continues with Levels 2–4 books, which provide a solid foundation in phonics and reading.

Penmanship exercises that reinforce phonics lessons

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Easy readers: What Do You Like to Do… (after Level 2 of Little Stories ) and What Can You Do… (after Level 3)

Spelling and grammar practice that reinforces phonics patterns

Teaching phonics-based word families, the author believes, is the most gratifying way for children to discover quickly that there are patterns to words and that they can read a LOT of words even when they are just beginning. Phonics drill can seem so pointless and dry to youngsters that it is almost self-defeating. They want to READ! In Little Stories for Little Folks , students are quickly launched into reading interesting, phonics-based short stories, and children discover with the very first story that they can actually read a “whole book”! This early success quickly breeds more success, producing eager readers with excellent word-attack skills.

“M Y daughter is really enjoying Little Stories for Little Folks . It all just clicks with her and she is zooming along!” —Kacey, CO

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