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Kindergarten Phonics and Reading Curriculum with Spelling and Handwriting

McRuffy SE editions are available only, directly, from McRuffy Press.

SE (Special Edition) The new Kindergarten Special Edition (SE) Phonics and Reading program is more comprehensive than the original black and white curriculum, featuring new lesson plans, new COLOR workbooks, and a resource pack full of fun and useful materials. Available exclusively from McRuffy Press with a special introductory price. Great program - Great Value!

Black and White Curriculum Our older, mass-market edition, now at a discount price.

Kindergarten SE Phonics and Reading Curriculum:

  • The SE Teacher's Manual includes daily lesson plans and reference material. The lesson plans are easy to follow with light scripting, thumbnail sketches of workbook pages, reduced-size pictures from the reading books with story text to allow you to follow along. See sample lesson plans.
  • Two SE Workbooks (now with laminated covers) provide over 175 colorful worksheets. Activities cover spelling, phonics, reading comprehension, and weekly assessments. See sample workbook pages.


  • Ten First Step Color Readers are four page books that give the child an easy and early experience in reading a book.
  • Twenty McRuffy Readers range from 8 to 15 pages. These humorous stories reinforce the weekly phonics concepts. All books are printed in color with cardstock covers. See sample book.


Ten Color Kindergarten Frst Step Readers


  • The SE Resource Pack contains flashcards for additional practice and game playing. Over 360 flashcards are printed 24 cards to a sheet and require cutting. The colorful short and long vowel charts are now laminated in the SE version. See sample Resource Pack.
  • We haven't forgotten those children who like to color. 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. Ruff's Pre-Writing Flip and Draw provides numerous tracing and coloring activities on reproducible pages, or use the unique flip out page and dry-erase markers (Markers are not included.)
    3. Coloring sheet copy master for each story.
  • Now included in the Resource Pack is the SE Games Pack. Game titles are: Wiggle Worm, Reading Baseball, Ruff's Lunch, Go Bananas!, and The Fish Pond. These feature laminated game boards, game pieces, and game cards.

Kindergarten PDF samples to view and print.

Special Introductory Price:

Kindergarten SE Phonics and Reading Curriculum ...$99.95
(Includes SE Teacher's Manual, 2 Colorful Workbooks, 10 Color First Step Readers, 20 Color Readers, and the Resource Pack.)

Kindergarten McRuffy Handwriting books are sold separately.

Individual Materials :

K SE Phonics and Reading Teacher's Manual ...$30.00

K SE Phonics and Reading Workbook 1 ...$16.95

K SE Phonics and Reading Workbook 2 ...$16.95

K SE Phonics First Step Readers Color (10 books) ...$10.00

K SE Phonics Readers Color (20 books)...$40.00

K SE PhonicsResource Pack...$30.00

Kindergarten McRuffy Handwriting books are sold separately.

Kindergarten Black and White Phonics and Reading Curriculum:

  • The Teacher's Manual includes daily lesson plans and reference material
  • Two workbooks provide a total of 175 activities.
Kindergarten Phonics and Reading  Teacher's Manual and Workbooks

  • Ten First Step Readers are four page books that give the child an easy and early experience in reading a book.

Ten Kindergarten Beginning Reading Books

  • Twenty McRuffy Readers range from 8 to 15 pages. These humorous stories reinforce the weekly phonics concepts. All books are printed black and white in the standard curriculum. Students color the pages after mastering the book.

Twenty  Kindergarten Reading Books

  • Flashcards are included for additional practice and game playing. Over 360 flashcards are printed 24 cards to a sheet and require cutting. Additional items in the packet include colorful vowel charts, handwriting charts, and other resources.

Flashcards and Posters

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

The weekly spelling lists are based upon phonics concepts.

Phonics and Language Concepts Taught:

  • Short vowel sounds
  • Consonant sounds
  • Long vowel sounds (basic patterns)
  • Consonant and vowel diagraphs: sh, oa, ay, ee
  • Consonant blends: st, gr, mp
  • Color words
  • Rhyme

View and print sample lesson plans, worksheets, and the Scope and Sequence.

K Phonics Curriculum with BW readers ...$99.95 Sale...$84.95
(Includes Teacher's Manual, Workbooks 1 and 2, 10 Black and White First Step Readers, 20 Black and White Readers, and the Flashcard Packet.)

Individual Materials:

K Phonics Teacher's Manual ...$30.00

K Phonics Workbook 1 ...$15.00

K Phonics Workbook 2 ...$15.00

K Phonics First Step Readers Black and White (10 books) ...$10.00

K Phonics Readers Black and White (20 books) ...$30.00

K SE Phonics Flashcard Packet...$15.00

Other Materials:

Although the lesson plans give a daily handwriting assignment that can be done on blank writing paper, the handwriting books feature additional practice exercises and guidance arrows that show the formation of the letters.

Not interested in a full curriculum? Check out the Dynamic Phonics Learning Book.
It includes 98 great lesson plans and charts to teach all of the basic phonics concepts.

McRuffy Sliders makes phonics a hands-on experience. These books contain 180 reproducible phonics drills.


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