Sound Foundations provides linguist-designed sets for young readers mastering the alphabet. Letter-sound correspondences are the first step to learning to read. The seven boxes provide full coverage of core consonants, vowels, tricky digraphs, and blends. New readers sound out their first words with the aid of beautiful, realistic photos and large print.
This fifth set of ten books covers letter combinations and letters that change their pronunciation depending on position, like strong r. Explicit practice with items like wr, tch, zh, and ph empowers students to recognize each consonant combination and sound it out confidently.
In this series, the first three sets cover every letter. The fourth and fifth sets focus digraphs and often-neglected sounds like final l. The last two sets target blends, an essential final step that many reading programs skip.
