by Daniel Mount | Oct 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The common “ball-and-stick” handwriting style that is often taught to young children, breaks letters down into simple shapes. Round “balls” for circles and straight “sticks” for lines. For example, the letter b is written with a straight vertical line,...
by Ariel Mount | Jun 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Do you have a younger child who is eager to learn to read, but does not yet have the fine motor skills for handwriting? Here are some simple ways to adapt Letter Mastery for little ones. As each letter is introduced in Letter Mastery, add one of our new Jumbo...
by Ariel Mount | May 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Do you have a young child who will be ready to read soon? You can start preparing them now! Children possess an innate desire to understand the world around them and one of the best things you can do to spark a love for learning in your child is to share your own...
by Daniel Mount | May 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
We are pleased to announce that Foundational Phonics was awarded Third Place in the Phonics category in the 2025 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards. Thanks so much to all who voted for us! We have dedicated ourselves to the task of ensuring that every mother...
by Daniel Mount | Feb 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
We are pleased to announce that Foundational Phonics was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Phonics category in the 2024 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards. We have dedicated ourselves to the task of ensuring that every mother has the tools she needs to teach her...
by Daniel Mount | Jul 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the multi-sensory activities suggested in Book One is for the teacher to read an interesting story containing the specific letter sound of each chapter of Letter Mastery. Lists of book suggestions are included in the book, but we have also provided a list here...
by Daniel Mount | Jul 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
“An overwhelming body of evidence supports the belief that whether children learn to read, and how easily they learn to read, is largely dependent on the method by which they are taught. Reading programs that deemphasize the connection between letters and...
by Daniel Mount | Jul 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
“The question is not, – how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education – but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life...
by Daniel Mount | Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
I started writing Foundational Phonics after joining forces with my sister to home educate our children. As second generation homeschoolers, we had already been exposed to a multitude of phonics based programs. My mother had an eclectic way of pulling together bits...
