Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! Daily Phonics, Grade 1 helps students in first grade—including students learning English—develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.

The 32 weekly units in grade 1 cover:

Initial Consonants: b, f, h, k, m, p, s, v, j

Initial Consonants: c, d, y, l, r, n, w, g, t

Final Consonants: g, l, d, f, p, n, b, m, t

Initial and Final Consonants: d, m, t, l, p, s
Initial and Final Consonants: g, b, n, k, f, r

Short Vowel Sounds: a, i

Short Vowel Sounds: e, o, u

CVC Pattern

Long Vowel Sounds: a, e, o, i, u

CVCe Pattern

Syllabication

Long Vowel Sounds of y

Initial Consonant Blends: sn, st, sw, sk, sm, sp

Initial Consonant +1 Blends: fl, cl, sl, pl, bl, gl

Initial Consonant +r Blends: cr, fr, br, tr, gr, dr

Final Consonant Blends: st, lt, nk, lf, nt, mp

Initial and Final Consonant Blends: st, cl, mp, tr, lt, br, lf, sp, sk, pl

Initial Consonant Digraphs: sh, th, wh, ch

Final Consonant Digraphs: sh, ch, th

R-Controlled Vowels: ar, or, ur, er, ir

Hard and Soft c

Hard and Soft g

Double Consonants: ff, ss, ll, zz

Long a Vowel Digraphs: ai, ay

Long e Vowel Digraphs: ee, ea

Long i Spellings: ie, igh

Long o Vowel Digraphs: oe, ow, oa

Diphthongs: oi, oy

Diphthongs: ou, ow

The Sounds of oo

Plural Forms: s, es

Inflectional Endings: -ing, -ed