Reading Readiness Curriculum | Word Families & Phonemic Awareness Activities | Kindergarten Learn to Read | Science of Reading Homeschool

Help your child take the final step from phonemic awareness to reading readiness. Foundations Book 5 strengthens the essential skills children need before formal reading instruction—including word families, middle sounds, print awareness, and early word recognition—all through wholesome, faith-filled lessons.

Foundations Book 5: Ready to Read

The final book in the Oak & Sapling Foundations series brings together everything children have learned throughout their pre-reading journey. Through engaging daily lessons, children practice hearing sounds within words, swapping sounds to create new words, recognizing word families, understanding how books work, and noticing familiar words and sentence structure.

Foundations focuses on building a strong literacy foundation from the ground up. Children develop confidence with language, strengthen phonemic awareness, and gain the readiness skills needed for successful reading instruction.

In This Book

✓ Middle vowel sound practice
✓ Sound substitution and manipulation
✓ Word families and rhyming patterns
✓ Print awareness and book-handling skills
✓ High-frequency word exposure in context
✓ Reading readiness activities
✓ Weekly poetry selections
✓ Picture book and read-aloud connections
✓ Nature-based learning activities
✓ Weekly review pages
✓ Parent guidance and teaching notes
✓ Progress tracker and completion certificate

Skills Learned
• Hear middle sounds in words
• Change sounds to make new words
• Recognize word families
• Understand how books work
• Notice common high-frequency words
• Build reading readiness

Perfect For
Preschool
Pre-K
Kindergarten
Homeschool families
Reading readiness support
Science of Reading aligned instruction
Children preparing for beginning phonics instruction

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**


Literacy From the Ground Up
Through poetry, nature study, picture books, conversation, and faith-filled phonological awareness activities, Oak & Sapling Foundations helps children build the listening, language, and literacy skills needed for future reading success.