Reading is the foundation of education, and the Kindergarten English Online workbook equips young learners with the skills needed to foster a lifelong love of reading. As part of Kolbe Academy's phonics-based English program, this comprehensive and engaging workbook integrates writing, reading, and basic English concepts.
Designed for students in Kolbe Academy's online Kindergarten program, the workbook supports a focus on essential reading and writing skills while introducing foundational concepts to ensure a strong start in literacy.
For many years Mrs. Dianne Muth, our founder, taught students to read successfully using phonics, repetition, and the Catholic National Readers. This program includes all of those elements.
Concepts covered in the workbook include:
- How to properly hold a pencil
- Letter and sound recognition
- How to form each letter of the alphabet
- Tracing, mazes, and games to build fine motor skills
- Decoding skills
- Sight words and early spelling practice
- Phonemic awareness: Recognizing the letter sounds present in different words.
- Phonics: Sounding out words by blending letter sounds.
- Sight words: Recognizing high-frequency words without the need to sound them out each time.
- Reading CVC (consonant-short-vowel-consonant) words and CVCe (consonant-vowel-consonant-silent-e) words.
- Reading stories comprised of simple sentences.
- Writing and dictation practice.
- Story sequencing.
- Verbal storytelling using classic art and Catholic images.
Give your child the building blocks of a lifelong love of reading with this fun and time-tested English program.
Used in the following program:
- Kindergarten
- Online