Phonics & English 1 endeavors to cultivate foundational phonics and English skills in your child so he or she can become a proficient reader and communicate in helpful ways. Your child will develop a foundational knowledge of English grammar and mechanics as well as collaborative, listening, and speaking skills.

The Writing & Grammar 10 course functions as the Year of the Essay, focusing on grammar skills and strategies in writing, speaking, and listening so students can write compelling essays grounded in a biblical worldview. They will be able to apply effective writing, revising, and critical-thinking strategies in interactive workshops; create informative, persuasive, and narrative texts; craft engaging presentations, and apply a biblical view of identity, logic, integrity, and judgment.

The Phonics and English 1 Worktext features interactive review activities, songs and manipulatives, and oral and writing exercises. Colorful pages provide practice for the lesson content as well as opportunities for formative assessment.

The Phonics and English 1 Activities offers practice and review activities for each daily lesson. Select activities may also be used for summative assessments.

This is a colorful packet of flashcards that enables teachers to introduce and review new vocabulary words.

The Phonics and English 1 Teacher Edition (5th edition) enables teachers to build foundational phonics and English skills so that students can read and communicate in beneficial ways. This teacher edition offers systematic and explicit phonics instruction using memorable phonics characters and word families. Writing and grammar skills are introduced with an intuitive approach that begins with sentences and slowly progresses to short paragraphs.

The phonics charts include age-appropriate 12.48” x 18.72” photos and art for Handwriting Charts, Alphabet Teaching Cards, Alphabet Song Chart, and 26 Phonics Song Charts.

This is a colorful packet of flashcards that enables teachers to review words grouped together in word families.

The teaching visuals enhance the lessons as the teacher guides discussions and introduces new concepts. The packet includes 12.48” x 18.72” cards that teach colors, shapes, months, dot patterns, clocks, money, seasons, and patriotic symbols. The birthday train, 100-day counting line, sequencing cards, and family and friends stick puppets help make learning fun!

This packet contains smaller versions of the items included in the Phonics and English 1 Visuals packet.

Phonics & English 1 incorporates biblical worldview shaping, listening and speaking skills, phonics, reading for comprehension, English grammar, and writing sentences and paragraphs. The 180 lessons present the biblical worldview goal of viewing language as a gift from God to be used for His glory and to love and serve others. It presents language skills as essential tools for oral and written communication.

The Workbook provides independent practice for each lesson. The front page practices the main skills taught in the lesson. Most back pages provide a spiral review of previous lessons and may be used for assessment. Back pages also include Let's Check pages for summative assessment.

The Teacher's Edition includes 180 lessons in six units. Each unit begins with a biblical worldview shaping lesson on one or more of the four language skills. Many lessons include a speaking or listening activity that will create interest in the lesson.

Each unit begins with an illustration and activity page that introduces the biblical worldview shaping focus. Colorful, engaging pages extend the guided practice taught in the lesson. The front page reviews related concepts and practices lesson objectives.

The phonics charts include the phonics characters from the Phonics and English 1 program used to represent the syllable patterns that are the basis for word families. The phonics song charts teach the sound of each vowel and consonant pattern. Word family cards give a systematic review of word families. The packet of charts is 8.5” x 11” for use in a homeschool setting.

These charts include teaching charts, sentence puzzle cards, and word cards for visual support when teaching lessons from the Phonics and English 1 program. The packet of charts is 8.5” x 11” for use in a homeschool setting.

The Phonics and English 1 Worktext is a colorful student book that gives practice with phonics skills and reading word families as well as reinforcement of other skills taught in Phonics and English 1 Teacher's Edition (3rd ed.).

Phonics & English 1 uses exciting theme lessons to combine phonics, reading, listening, comprehension, creative writing, and grammar. The six units cover short and long vowels, single consonant blends, and diagraphs, r-influenced vowels, special vowel sounds, silent consonants, suffixes, and syllable division. Phonics patterns are also taught using word families. Phonics characters make phonics generalizations fun and memorable.

Phonics and English 1 presents exciting theme lessons that combine phonics, reading, listening, comprehension, creative writing and grammar. Twenty-seven booklink lessons are also included. Reading 1 connects phonics and comprehension skills to silent and oral reading of a variety of stories in six colorful readers.

If you already have textbooks for Phonics and English 1 (3rd edition), Reading 1 (3rd edition), and Handwriting 1 (3rd edition) and would like to give your students access to an experienced teacher for a more independent learning approach, this option is for you. Online-only courses give you access to the streaming-video part of our video courses without sending you additional textbooks.

This visuals packet is an 8.5” x 10.87” collection of 46 visual cards for homeschool use when teaching Focus on Fives.

Help your student succeed in reading with the Phonics&English 1 educational materials from BJU Press. The Phonics 1 Practice Book follows the sequence of lessons taught in Phonics and English 1 and provides additional practice with two pages of colorful, fun activities per lesson. The book is designed to capture the student’s interest in learning and help solidify the material being taught in the phonics program..

This visuals packet is an 8.5” x 10.87” collection of visuals for the Focus on Fives phonics program for homeschool use.

Enhance your teaching of Phonics & English 1 (3rd ed.) with this wonderfully valuable tool. Includes fifty-four lively songs on various topics, including "Alphabet Song," "Teddy Bear," "The Lost Coin," and " We Gather Together.

Phonics skills are the foundation for a lifetime of reading. Build your child’s reading confidence through the teaching of phonics and comprehension skills through the Phonics & English 1 educational materials from BJU Press.

The English 1 Visuals help reinforce teaching of phonics generalizations and English skills. Also included are the story character visuals and several groups of teaching cards.

The English 1 Visuals Homeschool Flip Chart is a reduced (9” x 12”) version of the flip chart that helps reinforce teaching of phonics generalizations and English skills. Also included are the story character visuals and several groups of teaching charts.

The Phonics 1 Visuals Homeschool Packet includes a reduced (8 ½” x 11”) version of the phonics song charts filled with beautiful color photos, updated phonics characters, and a complete set of word Family Cards.

Phonics and English 1 presents exciting theme lessons that combine phonics, reading, listening, comprehension, creative writing and grammar. Twenty-seven booklink lessons are also included. Reading 1 connects phonics and comprehension skills to silent and oral reading of a variety of stories in six colorful readers.

If you already have textbooks for Phonics and English 1 (3rd edition), Reading 1 (3rd edition), and Handwriting 1 (3rd edition) and would like to give your students access to an experienced teacher for a more independent learning approach, this option is for you. DVD-only courses give you DVD recordings of lessons without sending you additional textbooks.