Systematic phonics

Kindergarten Phonics Homeschool Curriculum

At kindergarten this starts at the very first sound, s-a-t-p, with nothing assumed: no letter names, no rhyming, no sight words memorized in advance. If your child cannot yet hold a pencil, that is fine -- every answer here is spoken aloud or tapped, never written.

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.