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13 courses
English · Kindergarten
Kindergartners sharpen the listening and speaking skills that every later reading course depends on: answering who, what, where and why questions about a story read aloud, following two- and three-step directions, and describing things clearly with describing words, opposites and category words.
English · Kindergarten
Kindergartners learn all 26 letters in capital and small form (including the tricky look-alikes b, d, p and q), put letters in alphabet order, and learn how print is built: letters make words, spaces separate words, and sentences start with a capital letter and end with an end mark. They also practise following print left to right and word by word.
English · Kindergarten
An all-listening course in the smallest sounds of speech (phonemes). Children blend sounds into words (/m/ /a/ /p/ makes map), break words into sounds and count them, find the first, middle and last sound, and swap one sound to make a new word. These oral skills prepare children to read and spell with letters in the next courses.
English · Kindergarten
Children learn the first 13 letter–sound pairs of the PlayOwl sound–spelling sequence, in three small steps: m, s, a, t; then p, n, i, f; then o, d, c, g, h. They hear each sound, tap letter tiles, and choose the letter that spells a sound at the start, middle or end of a spoken word, getting ready to blend and read words in the next course.
English · Kindergarten
Children use the 13 letter–sound pairs they already know (m, s, a, t, p, n, i, f, o, d, c, g, h) to blend sounds into words with letter tiles, read words that differ by just one letter, learn five heart words (the, a, I, is, to) and read a short decodable story. The checks are built so that pictures and first-letter guessing never give the answer away.
English · Kindergarten
Children learn Step 4 of the PlayOwl sequence (b, e, r, l, k, u), so they now know all five short vowels. Then they turn sounds into spellings: they say a word, tap its sounds and build it with letter tiles, learn when /k/ is spelled c or k, and learn five new heart words (he, me, be, said, of).
English · Kindergarten
Children learn the last single-letter sounds of the PlayOwl sequence (Step 5: w, j, v, x, y, z and qu) and nine more heart words, then read whole sentences and a short story, Jax and the Tan Pup, made only of taught spellings and heart words. They answer questions about the story and learn to reread when something does not make sense.
English · Kindergarten
Two original read-aloud stories, Turtle's Big Climb and Squirrel's Snowy Day, help children name characters, setting and major events, retell a story in order with key details, explain how a character feels and why, and compare the adventures of characters in two stories. Stories are heard, not decoded.
English · Kindergarten
Using an original read-aloud fact text, How Seeds Travel, children find the main topic and key details, ask and answer questions about the text, learn what titles, pictures, labels and captions do, and tell how two things in a text are alike and different. A new text about sea turtles checks transfer.
English · Kindergarten
Kindergartners learn three reasons to write (to share an opinion, to give information and to tell a story) and make one piece of each, combining drawing, dictating to a grown-up and writing with the letters and sounds they know. Short checks help them tell the three kinds apart, find a reason, separate facts from feelings and put story events in order.
English · Kindergarten
Using short sentences made of the letters and heart words they can read, children learn what makes a complete sentence, start sentences and names (and the word I) with capital letters, choose a period, question mark or exclamation mark, and build sentences with spaces between words.
English · Kindergarten
The last Kindergarten English course brings the year's writing to an audience. Children share a drawing or piece of writing by speaking clearly in complete sentences, listen to others and respond with an on-topic question or kind comment, and revise their own work by adding a detail after a friend's question.
English · Grade 1
Grade 1 begins by sharpening the sound skills behind reading and spelling: telling short and long vowel sounds apart, blending and segmenting spoken words of up to five sounds (including words that start or end with two consonants), and finding sounds in any position. A quick review of Kindergarten's Steps 1–5 makes sure every child can spell and read CVC words before new spellings begin.
