Calvert 1st Grade Language Arts is a comprehensive phonics-based language course that integrates phonics, reading, and grammar into one fun-filled homeschool course. Ten colorful worktexts, five vocabulary-controlled readers, and a complete teacher's guide make this a great choice for parents looking for an easy-to-use reading program! A set of five beginning-level readers is included. Through this colorful course, students encounter skills such as rhyming words, consonant digraphs and blends, vowel digraphs, R-controlled vowels, and diphthongs, as well as basic grammar skills to take students from "learning to read" to "reading to learn!"