1st Grade - Simply Teach Phonics is HERE!

Simply Teach Phonics First Grade is FINALLY here! It’s been a long couple of years of writing, using, testing, etc! The lessons and decodable texts are ready for you just in time for this school year! Rounds 1-5 (17 weeks of instruction) have been released and the final rounds 6-10 will be released soon for you to use later this school year.

The Simply Teach Phonics lessons and texts were written to be used as your daily Tier 1 phonics instruction.  These lessons follow the Science of Reading and include the alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness and text application.  We use the lesson pattern of phonemic awareness warm-up, sound-spelling review, blending procedure and practice, irregular word review and introduction, text reading and dictation.  These steps prepare students to read the text successfully, remember irregular words, learn decoding strategies and the sound-spellings.

Each Round includes 3 or 4 weeks of instruction. Each week of instruction includes four lessons, decodable text, and irregular word posters. The download includes all you need to be able to teach. Tips for instruction and lots of videos.

We are so excited to finally have this resource out there for you. Let’s teach kids to know HOW to read, so that they can LEARN from reading and make meaning from text! Phonics is key!

Thanks to all the teachers who used this over the past year and gave us the feedback to make this what it is. Good luck to you all!