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Adapting Letter Mastery For Little Ones
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.
Teaching Younger Children to Read
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...
Foundational Phonics Awarded Third Place in the 2025 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards
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...
Foundational Phonics awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards
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...
Read Aloud Book Suggestions for Each Letter of the Alphabet
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...
The Dangers of Whole Word Reading and Why Phonics is So Important
"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...
Why We Use a Multi-Sensory Approach
“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...
How Foundational Phonics Came to Be
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...