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Little Seedlings Press Foundational Phonics provides everything a mother needs to teach her child to read simply and enjoyably.

Our goal is to help you to instill a love of reading in your child that will benefit them for a lifetime. Foundational Phonics breathes new life into time honored principles of the past introducing simple concepts with rich feedback, building precept upon precept. The author appeals to many different learning styles and infuses all purposeful activity with just enough playfulness to keep it fun.

Any parent, teacher or older sibling who can read can easily spend quality time with a non reader and achieve literacy using this curriculum, a pencil, and a box of crayons.

Foundational Phonics provides everything you need in one complete, carefully designed program. Simply open the book and ...
12/09/2025

Foundational Phonics provides everything you need in one complete, carefully designed program. Simply open the book and begin. Each lesson flows naturally into the next, creating a seamless path to reading mastery that you and your child will look forward to each day.

We'd love to hear how Foundational Phonics has blessed you. Leave a comment below!

Artwork by: Jessie Willcox Smith

Creating a culture of learning and curiosity in your home will help instill and love of leaning in your children. Here ...
12/02/2025

Creating a culture of learning and curiosity in your home will help instill and love of leaning in your children.

Here are some practical ways you can prepare your little ones for reading success!

Artwork by: Muriel Dawson

Children possess an innate desire to understand the world around them and one of the best things you can do to spark a l...
11/25/2025

Children possess an innate desire to understand the world around them and one of the best things you can do to spark a love for learning in your child is to share your own excitement and curiosity with them. Point out the beauty and tiny details, ask questions, find answers.

Here are some practical ways you can help your children discover the joy of learning to read!

Artwork by: Muriel Dawson

It's time for our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale!The gift of reading is one of the most precious things a mother or fath...
11/24/2025

It's time for our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale!

The gift of reading is one of the most precious things a mother or father can give their child. The heart behind Foundational Phonics is to empower parents to be able to teach their children to read with ease and confidence while fostering a love for learning. Teaching your child should be a joyful journey of discovery, not a daunting task. Our straightforward approach lets you focus on what truly matters: sharing the joy of learning with your child. Give a gift that lasts a lifetime!

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Once a child begins to read, it can be tempting to stop reading aloud and only require them to read books to you at thei...
11/18/2025

Once a child begins to read, it can be tempting to stop reading aloud and only require them to read books to you at their current skill level.

However, it's very important to continue reading aloud at a level two to three times the child's skill level throughout their reading journey.

Let's find out why!

Artwork credit: Jessie Willcox Smith

We often think of reading aloud as something we do only before a child can read for themselves, but there are so many b...
11/11/2025

We often think of reading aloud as something we do only before a child can read for themselves, but there are so many benefits to this practice that impact a child's literacy--from the early stages of learning to read to becoming fluent readers and beyond.

Today, let's take a look at how reading aloud impacts an emergent reader (one just beginning to learn to read).

Artwork credit: Jessie Willcox Smith

The Foundational Phonics series uses a specific font for handwriting--one designed to help prevent letter reversals and ...
11/04/2025

The Foundational Phonics series uses a specific font for handwriting--one designed to help prevent letter reversals and other common reading hindrances, as well as to prepare a child to easily transition from print to cursive later on.

Learn more in today's post about about how the font for Foundational Phonics was chosen and how it assists a child, in particular those with dyslexia, as they are learning to read and write.

Artwork credit: Jessie Willcox Smith

Hope to see our local friends there!
10/28/2025

Hope to see our local friends there!

There are a few more tickets left for the conference with Heidi St. John this Saturday! Get them before they're gone!

Diacritical marks are a helpful tool for children who are just beginning to read. A breve is a curved mark above a vowel...
10/28/2025

Diacritical marks are a helpful tool for children who are just beginning to read.

A breve is a curved mark above a vowel to indicate that it says its short sound.

A macron is a straight mark above a vowel to indicate that it says its long sound (or its own name).

A cedilla is a little tail added to the letter 's' when it makes a buzzing sound instead of a hiss.

The second book in the Foundational Phonics series, Word Mastery, introduces young learners to the concept of reading and labeling words with diacritical marks, but why?

Read above to learn more about how diacritical marks assist a child who is learning to read.

Artwork credit: Albert Anker

Today we're answering some of the commonly asked questions we receive about the Foundational Phonics series. What suppli...
10/22/2025

Today we're answering some of the commonly asked questions we receive about the Foundational Phonics series.

What supplies are needed?

Are the books consumable?

AND,

Why the "fancy" handwriting?

Artwork credit: Jessie Willcox Smith

Copywork is a simple yet powerful tool for penmanship, grammar, and spelling in the later years, but copywork also assis...
10/14/2025

Copywork is a simple yet powerful tool for penmanship, grammar, and spelling in the later years, but copywork also assists in beginning reading instruction and helps to build reading fluency as a child progresses through each lesson in the Foundational Phonics Series.

*NOTE: If your child doesn't yet possess the fine motor skills for formal copywork, we offer Jumbo Handwriting Cards on our website for beginning letter practice without physical writing.

You may print these on cardstock and hang them at your child's eye level for easy access and daily practice.

To make these cards more tactile, use school glue and place little dots along the lines and let them dry. Children can run their fingers along the dots to form the letters.

photo credit: "The Young Scholar" Jessie Willcox Smith

Progress in reading fluency should always be measured by how far a child has come, not how far they still have to go. To...
10/07/2025

Progress in reading fluency should always be measured by how far a child has come, not how far they still have to go.

To encourage your child as they build reading fluency, while also assuring yourself that they are making adequate progress, you can utilize a few simple assessment methods.

Artwork credit: "Reading to Little Brother" Jessie Willcox Smith

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Foundational phonics is the only reading program of it's kind that combines a traditional phonics method with a multi-sensory approach. It brings to life the simple, age old, proven methods of our forefathers and presents them in fun, engaging ways that not only build neural pathways, but delight children and teachers alike.

The natural progression from learning the letters and their sounds to reading with confidence is not interrupted by over stimulation and busywork, but instead enhanced by delightful black and white drawings, engaging stories, and careful application. By infusing all purposeful activity through multiple learning channels and adding a bit of playfulness to keep it fun, this curriculum appeals to multiple learning styles. Together, both student and teacher are guided on this journey as each concept is introduced, explained and applied in a way that is logical and easy to understand. There are no tedious scripted teacher’s manuals, extra pieces or prep work necessary. ​ Any competent reader can easily spend quality time with a non reader and achieve success with this curriculum.