Here’s the fourth and final book in the First Steps with Phonics Workbook series, designed especially for children with Down Syndrome.
While most phonics programs begin with CVC words, this introduction to phonics begins with something even easier: the phonograms that make one and only one sound. Book 1 teaches children to sound out and spell words that have the phonograms AY and AI. Book 2 teaches the phonograms EE and IGH. Book 3 focuses on the phonograms OA and OE. And Book 4 teaches the phonogram EIGH.
Here are samples from Book 4:
Sorting, matching, learning new vocabulary, tracing, and copying are some of the activities that support mastery of the phonograms and help with blending (sounding out words) and segmenting (building/spelling words).
To learn more about First Steps with Phonics and how to teach it, see this post:
First Steps with Phonics: A Free Phonics Workbook
The other workbooks are available here:
First Steps with Phonics: A Free Phonics Workbook
First Steps with Phonics Book 2: A Free Phonics Workbook
First Steps with Phonics Book 3: A Free Phonics Workbook
Download First Steps with Phonics Book 4 here:
You may also be interested in these additions to First Steps with Phonics:
First Steps with Phonics Extra-large Blending Cards
First Steps with Phonics Decodable Readers
Once your child has mastered all four First Steps with Phonics books, check out this post to get going on the CVC words:
Teaching Children with Down Syndrome to Read: Our Top Ten Resources for Beginning Phonics
