The Alphabet Series Starter Set is designed to accompany the Recipe for Reading program from Educators Publishing Service. This set contains 39 controlled-vocabulary readers that correspond to all of the lessons in the Recipe for Reading Teacher's Manual, Revised (sold-separately) which also corresponds to the Recipe for Reading Workbooks 1-8 (each also sold-separately). This "starter set" includes the "Alphabet Series Volumes 1, 2, and 3," which are all sold as separate sets.
Stories increase in difficulty, and help students practice target words, sounds, sight words, and build up comprehension skills while reading motivating, engaging stories. Word lists, fluency sentences, and comprehension questions, as well as black-and-white illustrations, are also included, along with a Scope & Sequence. Pages vary from 14-22. Grades K-3.
Skills addressed in these readers include:
- Consonant sounds
- CVC words
- Consonant digraphs
- Two-syllable compound words
- Doubling rule for ff-ll-ss-zz
- Plural words
- Consonant blends
- Magic e
- R-controlled vowels
- Vowel digraphs
- Hard-soft c and g
- VCV and VCe spelling rules
- Vowel blends and digraphs
- Three-syllable words
- Schwa
- Endings -tion and -sion
- Sounds of ch
- Final s as in is
- Spelling with affixes
- Sight word recognition
- Automaticity and fluency
- Beginning comprehension
Recipe for Reading from EPS is a research-based, multisensory, phonics-based reading curriculum that features intervention strategies for struggling readers in grades K-6 or beginning readers in grades K-3. Students who progress through the program will learn consonant sounds, digraphs, consonant blends, diphthongs, short/long vowels, inflectional endings, suffixes, and spelling rules. Incorporating visual, auditory, and kinesthetic techniques, this program is ideal for differentiated instruction.
Please note that this item is available for purchase by Homeschools only.
