Logic of English Foundations B Teacher’s Manual, 3rd Ed

The pick-up-and-teach Foundations Teacher’s Manuals guide you through everything you need to introduce students ages 4-7 to reading and writing!

New 3rd Edition (2019)

• Compatible with any Foundations B Student Workbook.
• Now includes reading comprehension questions for our eight new Foundations B Readers, The Young Artist Series, as well as new comprehension questions for the original Foundations B Readers.
• Updated section headers indicate what skills students are practicing in each section of the lesson.

Foundations B Teacher’s Manual

• Carefully designed lessons that help you explain concepts like syllables, schwa, and silent final E’s while learning alongside your students
• Uppercase handwriting instruction for both manuscript and cursive included
• Instructions for 39 phonogram games
• Engaging fluency games that get kids up and moving
• Guided assessments
• Materials lists
• Teacher tips that help you to answer student questions
• Spelling Analysis lists with guides for marking words and sample scripting
• Clearly laid out objectives
• Easy to teach! No training required!

More about Foundations B

• Learn to write the uppercase letters in cursive or manuscript
• Match uppercase and lowercase letters
• 21 new multi-letter phonograms
• 8 spelling rules
• Learn about schwa and why it happens so often in English
• 296 new high-frequency words and the tools for reading and spelling thousands of additional words
• 2 reasons for a silent final E
• Read one-syllable words with a long vowel sound
• Identify the medial vowel in a word
• Read and comprehend simple sentences
• Fun and engaging games

Recommended for

• Ages 4 to 7
• Any student age 7 or under who has completed Foundations A or who has strong phonemic awareness skills, knows all the sounds of A-Z, and can write the lowercase letters
• As a phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar curriculum for Grades K-2
• As a complete language arts curriculum for Grades K-2
• Beginning readers
• Young struggling readers
• Students with dyslexia
• Early readers ready to learn why English words are spelled the way they are

Prerequisites for Level B

• Foundations A  or
• Students age 4-7 who know how to:
  • blend separate sounds into words auditorily
  • segment words into their individual sounds auditorily
  • identify all the sounds of A-Z
  • sound out unfamiliar CVC and consonant-blend words like win, clap, and lost
  • write the lowercase letters comfortably from muscle memory