Foundations A Student Workbooks

The Foundations Student Workbook is a colorful array of games and activities to engage your student. It includes fun pages for developing phonemic awareness, activities for mastering the sounds of A-Z, delightful cursive handwriting pages that correspond with Doodling Dragons, reading games, and much more! Each workbook also includes six tear-out readers for use with Foundations A.

Like all Logic of English products, Foundations emphasizes critical thinking over rote memorization equipping students for all subjects.

Handwriting

New *studies link handwriting with stronger letter recognition and reading development. Foundations Level A builds upon this relationship by incorporating Rhythm of Handwriting instruction into each lesson. The single-letter phonograms are taught first with explicit instruction that teaches where the strokes touch the lines. These instructions are then shortened into the bold, rhythmic instruction that emphasizes the rhythm of handwriting. Students should be able to repeat back the bold words while forming each letter. This will help the student to develop a clear understanding of how each letter is formed. Foundations’ handwriting instruction has students see the letter, hear the instructions, repeat (speak) the instructions, and write the letter.
*Read more about the relationship between reading and handwriting in our blog :
The Relationship of Handwriting and Reading

Lessons 1-4 begin by teaching four handwriting strokes. These four strokes are then combined to write the first phonogram in Lesson 5. Through our research we have found that some students begin to see each of the letters as a series of strokes. They picture the strokes as pieces of a puzzle that all fit neatly together to form a letter. These students thrive on learning the individual shapes of the strokes needed to write each letter first. They then combine the strokes both visually and rhythmically with the shortened, bold directions. Other students are “big picture” thinkers and prefer to learn the strokes as part of the whole. We suggest that teachers experiment to find the best technique for their students.

Choosing Between Manuscript and Cursive