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These fun and engaging activities will sharpen students’ literacy skills and
reinforce specific phonic skills to set the stage for academic success. Foundational
Skills: Phonics for Second Grade is flexible, research-based, and aligned with
Common Core State and other state standards for English Language Arts. The
activities help build students’ working knowledge of concepts of print, the
alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system.
This book is a must-have resource for teachers, tutors, and parents to pre-teach,
enrich, and review the skills students need towards becoming proficient readers.

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• Table  of  Contents  
• Introduction  excerpt  
• Student  activity  pages  
 
 
 
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Foundational Skills: Phonics for Pre-Kindergarten

These fun and engaging activities will sharpen students’ literacy skills and
reinforce specific phonic skills to set the stage for academic success. Foundational
Skills: Phonics for Second Grade is flexible, research-based, and aligned with
Common Core State and other state standards for English Language Arts. The
activities help build students’ working knowledge of concepts of print, the
alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system.
This book is a must-have resource for teachers, tutors, and parents to pre-teach,
enrich, and review the skills students need towards becoming proficient readers.

•
with CD
Also available . . .
K 1 2
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Foundational Skills: Phonics Activities for Second Grade •
with CD

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 Table of Contents
Introduction and Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

How to Use This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Correlations to Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Letter Formation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Activity Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

References Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Contents of the Digital Resource CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

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 Introduction and Research

Developing Foundational Skills

in Reading
Foundational Skills: Phonics for Pre-Kindergarten has been written with
pre-kindergarteners in mind! The pages in this book provide children practice with
some of the foundational skills needed to be successful readers—phonics and word
recognition.
There has been much written and said about phonics. All the talk has left questions
about what phonics is and whether it should be taught. Simply put, phonics is the
relationship between letters and sounds. When a child learns that the letter s makes
the /s/ sound, that is phonics! Since children need to be able to figure out words in
order to read, it is important that they understand the relationship between the letters
that are on the page and the sounds the letters make (Chall 1995).
There has been much research to show that phonics needs to be explicitly taught
and included in good reading programs. In fact, the National Reading Panel (2000)
included phonics as one of the five essential components of reading instruction.
The fact is that a large number of words in English do follow patterns and rules.
Instruction and practice with phonics gives children an opportunity to develop
their understanding of the relationship between letters and sounds. Additionally,
researchers have found that phonic awareness is a strong predictor of later reading
achievement (Juel 1988; Griffith and Olson 1992; Lomax and McGee 1987; Tunmer
and Nesdale 1985).
But not all words can be figured out with phonics (Cook 2004). For example,
the words of and the cannot be sounded out with knowledge of letter and sound
relationships. There are several word lists that have been compiled of words
that occur in print with high frequency, and many of these words do not follow
patterns and rules (Fry and Kress 2006). Children need to know other ways to
read or figure out words that they cannot apply phonics to, such as recognizing
words by sight or using context. For this reason, practice with frequently occurring
grade-level-appropriate sight words is an important component of reading.
This book provides children with many opportunities to practice key skills in both
phonics and word recognition. Practicing these skills help build the foundation for
successful readers. And although the traditional saying is “practice makes perfect,”
a better saying for this book is “practice makes successful readers.”

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 Primary Sound b
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________

Directions: Trace and write.

Directions: Color the b’s.

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 Primary Sound b
Name: ______________________________Date: _____________

Directions: Write the missing b’s. Color the pictures.

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 Short Vowel a
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________

Directions: Write the letter a. Draw a line from each

word to its picture.

1. c p
2. b t
3. c n
4. c t
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 Long Vowel a
Name: ______________________________Date: _____________

Directions: Write the letters a and e. Draw a line from

each word to its picture.

1. r k
2. c k
3. t p
4. g t
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