EPS Phonics PLUS Student Edition A (Grade 1)

Level A

EPS Phonics PLUS A provides a variety of interactive, dynamic exercises that review and expand upon concepts developed in Level K. Students apply their new skills to a variety of poems, plays, literature, and decodable stories.

Phonological Awareness

• Identifying initial, final, and medial consonants and vowels
• Segmenting and blending phonemes
• Recognizing and producing rhyme
• Syllables
• Identifying and blending onset and rime

Fluency

• Automaticity practice
• Repeated readings
• Read-alouds
• Choral reading
• Partner reading and Reader’s Theater

Alphabet Awareness

• Recognizing and naming letters
• Alphabetical order
• Capital and lowercase letter discrimination
• Consonant and vowel discrimination

Vocabulary and Word Analysis

• Using picture and context clues
• High frequency words
• Homophones
• Contractions and compound words
• Open and closed syllables

Concepts of Print

• Concept of word and sentence
• Track print left to right and top to bottom

Writing

• Writing letters of the alphabet
• Words and sentences
• Stories and poems

Phonics

• Sound-to-symbol correspondence
• Blending onset/rime and phonemes
• Consonants (initial and final)
• Digraphs and blends (initial and final)
• Short and long vowels
• Vowel digraphs and diphthongs
• r-controlled vowels
• y as a vowel and broad a
• Silent letters
• Word families
• CVC, CVVC, and CVCe words
• Spelling

Comprehension

• Context clues
• Think-alouds and visualization
• Sequencing and predicting
• Following directions
• Literal recall and retelling
• Story structure: beginning-middle-end
• Critical thinking
• KWL
• QAR