• The SE Teacher's Manual features 175 daily lesson plans with light scripting to make concepts easy to teach with little advanced preparation, thumbnail sketches of workbook pages, reduced-size pictures from the reading books with story text to allow you to follow along.
  Each lesson contains three sections.
  1. Lesson Objectives are clearly stated.
  2. Materials are referenced so you'll know what you need at a glance.
  3. Teaching section presents the concepts to the student. See sample lesson plans.
• Two colorful SE Workbooks (now with laminated covers for added durability) provide a wide variety of activities to reinforce reading, language, and spelling concepts. The workbooks are spiral bound to lay flat or fold back completely. Activities cover spelling, phonics, reading comprehension, and weekly assessments.
  
  1. The Language and Reading (LAR) workbook contains language and grammar activities, poems, and additional reading materials.
     
  2. The Spelling and Phonics (SAP) workbook contains activities emphasizing word structure, spelling rules, phonics, and spelling.

  See sample LAR workbook pages.
  See sampleSAP workbook pages.

• Thirty-four color books make reading fun and interesting. Our reading books are specially written to coordinate with new phonics concepts. Students build fluency and comprehension skills through multiple readings
  of the book throughout a week. Carefully scripted questions in the teacher's manual help develop higher level thinking skills needed for advanced reading.
• Each book features a word list on the back cover. Children practice words in isolation and then read them in the context of the story. These humorous stories reinforce the weekly phonics concepts. All books are printed in color with cardstock covers.
  See sample books:
  The Bug Bus
  The Wolf That Yelled Crow

• The SE Resource Pack contains reproducible tests, copy masters, charts, and more. The colorful short and long vowel charts are now laminated in the SE version. See sample Resource Pack.
• Three new items are in the SE Resource Pack.
  1. The puppet cut-outs feature characters from the stories that can be colored and made into stick puppets for creative story-telling.
  2. New SE table top games: 5 new colorful games to practice reading skills.
  3. Coloring sheet copy master for each story.

Handwriting assignments are included in the Teacher's Manual. Check out the optional First Grade McRuffy Handwriting books which provide additional tracing and practice exercises.

• The Teacher's Manual includes daily lesson plans, copy masters, and reference material. The phonics lessons are integrated with language, spelling, reading, and handwriting.
• Two workbooks provide a total of 160 pages of activities

• 28 McRuffy Readers These entertaining stories reinforce the weekly phonics concepts. All books are printed black and white in the standard curriculum. Students may color the pages after mastering each individual book.

• Flashcards are included for additional practice
  and game playing.