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 sixth set of ten books is the first of two sets to focus on blends. This often-neglected skill is key for new readers to read confidently, and blended consonants are pronounced slightly differently than their solo counterparts. Explicit coaching in blends rounds out alphabet skills and creates confident readers.
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.
