A Beka Book Phonics Download PDF

1. Learn to recognize the short vowels and their sounds.

2. Learn to recognize the consonants and their sounds.

3. Learn to blend.

Blending the sounds of a consonant and a vowel is the first step to reading words.

4. Learn to sound one-vowel words.

When there is one vowel in a word, that vowel usually says its short sound.

Note: Sight words cannot be pronounced entirely by phonetic analysis. Children learn to recognize sight words such as the, I, and a.

5. Learn the sounds of the long vowels. Learn to sound two-vowel words.

When there are two vowels in a word, the first vowel says its long sound, and the second vowel is silent.

6. Learn the special phonics sounds.

The A Beka Book phonics program contains 132 special sounds (often called phonics rules), such as those listed below:

• bl in block
• ear in bear
• cr in crab
• alk in walk

• ang in bang
• gl in glue
• ay in pray
• str in stream

Additional skills:

1. Know and use prefixes and suffixes.
2. Divide words into syllables.
3. Use alphabetical order.
4. Recognize and work with rhyming words, opposite words, same meaning words, same sounding words, compound words, and contractions.

A Beka Book Materials for Teaching Phonics

A Beka Book offers complete day-by-day lesson plans for phonics and reading from K4 through grade 2. Listed below are teaching aids and readers for the six steps of phonics.

1. Short vowels
   • Miniature Alphabet Flashcards K
   • Large Alphabet Flashcards K–2
   • Large Alphabet Vowel Chart from Phonics Charts and Games Set K
   • Letter Picture Flashcards K
   • Vowel Chart from Basic Phonics Charts 1–2
2. Consonants
   • Miniature Alphabet Flashcards K
   • Large Alphabet Flashcards K–2
   • Consonant Chart from Phonics Charts and Games Set K
   • Letter Picture Flashcards K
   • Consonant Chart from Basic Phonics Charts 1–2
3. Blends
   • Blend Ladders K
   • My Blend and Word Book K
   • Blend Practice Cards Set A K–1
   • Basic Phonics Charts 1–2
4. One-vowel words
   • My Blend and Word Book K
   • Basic Phonics Charts 1–2
   • Handbook for Reading 1–2
   • Readers:

     K4	Little Books 1–10 (10 books) Old MacDonald's Farm, Tip, Gus, Wig on a Pig, Matt
     K5	My Blend and Word Book I Learn to Read, Book A, Book B, Book C
     1	Fun with Pets, pp. 1–73

5. Long vowels and two-vowel words
   • My Blend and Word Book K
   • Basic Phonics Charts 1–2
   • Handbook for Reading 1–2
   • Readers:

     K4	Pet Pete, Mike's Coat, A Pal
     K5	My Blend and Word Book I Learn to Read, Book D I Do Read, Books 1, 2, 3, 4
     1	Fun with Pets, pp. 74–126 Tiptoes, pp. 3–42

6. Special phonics sounds
   • Basic Phonics Flashcards K–2
   • Clue Word Cards K–2
   • Basic Phonics Charts 1–2
   • Large Phonics Teaching Charts 1–2
   • Handbook for Reading 1–2
   • Readers:

     K5	I Can Read Well, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 Big Owl Books (4 books) Family Fun Books (7 books)
     1	Tiptoes, Stepping Stones, Secrets and Surprises, The Bridge Book, Animals in the Great Outdoors, Kind and Brave, Aesop’s Fables, Strong and True, Down by the Sea
     2	Story Tree, Treasure Chest

A Beka Book® has a Basic Phonics Sounds CD to assist in teaching phonics.

View Phonics materials.