Oral Blending | Phonemic Awareness Homeschool Curriculum | Kindergarten Phonics Preschool Literacy | Letter Sounds Science of Reading

Help your child make the exciting leap from knowing letters and sounds to building simple words. Foundations Book 4 uses playful oral blending, sound games, and faith-filled phonemic awareness activities to prepare preschool and kindergarten students for confident reading success.

Foundations Book 4: Building Little Words

This step of the Oak & Sapling Foundations series helps children practice hearing, blending, and manipulating sounds in words before formal reading instruction begins. Through short daily lessons, picture books, poems, nature-based activities, and hands-on word play, children strengthen the critical phonological awareness skills that support future decoding and reading fluency.

Unlike traditional worksheets that rush children into reading, this developmentally appropriate approach focuses on building a strong foundation first. Children learn to put sounds together, listen carefully within words, and play with language in meaningful and engaging ways.

In This Book
✓ Oral blending activities
✓ Sound manipulation practice
✓ Continued letter-sound introduction, review and mastery
✓ Word play and listening games
✓ Early word family exposure
✓ Nature-based learning activities
✓ Weekly poetry and picture book connections
✓ Christian worldview integration

Designed For:
Pre-K
Kindergarten
Homeschool families
Science of Reading aligned instruction
Reading readiness and intervention support

Included:
5 weeks of structured lessons
5 short daily activities per week
Weekly review pages
Poems and nursery rhymes
Recommended picture books
Progress tracker
Reading pathway guide

Part of the Oak & Sapling Foundations Series:
Book 1: Little Ears, Ready to Hear
Book 2: Sounds Take Shape
Book 3: Letters Take Root
*Book 4: Building Little Words
Book 5: Ready to Read
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Little Oak Readers Primer One

Strong readers are built from the ground up. Oak & Sapling Foundations helps children develop the listening, language, and phonemic awareness skills needed for future reading success through rich, joyful, and meaningful learning.