Systematic phonics
1st Grade Phonics Homeschool Curriculum
Most 1st graders start partway in, around blends and digraphs (sh, ch, th) rather than single sounds, and the placement guide in the parent dashboard finds that starting point from a two-minute check rather than making you guess.
This teaches reading the way the research says reading works: sounds first, taught explicitly, in a careful order. Schools call it systematic synthetic phonics. Clara teaches each sound out loud and plays the blending games with your child that a good reception teacher would. Your child then shows they can read by tapping the right printed word. The question is spoken aloud; the answer words never are, because reading them is the whole point. Every word your child is asked to read uses only sounds already taught. We check that mechanically when the course is built, so it is a promise rather than a hope.
How the year opens
- First Sounds, First Words
- Words With More in Them
- The Vowels Grow Up
One honest note: 1st grade isn't taught as a separate course here. Kindergarten through 2nd grade share one phonics course, and your child starts wherever they actually are in it, not wherever their grade says they should be.
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