A Phonics Reading and Coloring Book for Grades K-3 is a part of the Habakkuk Educational Materials reading program and was designed to help teach children in grades kindergarten through 3rd how to read while also becoming better spellers.  The eBook version takes the form of digital flashcards when used on an interactive whiteboard or computer screen.  Throughout the book, children will gradually learn the consonant blends, consonant digraphs and trigraphs, diphthongs, r-controlled vowels, inflectional endings, common prefixes and suffixes, and many other letters and letter combinations that make a distinct sound.  They will also encounter plurals, contractions, compound words, and words with an apostrophe s added while reading the sentences.  Besides learning how to sound out words, the whole-word approach will be used to teach students 38 sight words used in the sentences of the book.  Free sight word flashcards and bingo cards, phonics worksheets, and a phonics assessment test can also be accessed by visiting the “Free Teaching Materials” page of the Habakkuk Educational Materials website.
 
Please note that a prerequisite to reading the sentences in this book is familiarity with the A-Z alphabet sounds.  If students are not already familiar with these sounds, they can usually be learned within a couple of months or less with the Digital Alphabet Flashcards, also by Habakkuk Educational Materials.  Everything else they will need to know to successfully read the sentences and to sound out the example words is taught in this book, as well as virtually everything else they will need to know about phonics in grades kindergarten through 3rd.  For more information about this book, how to use it to help your students master phonics, and for the audio options available in the alternative electronic version Phonics Book for Kids and Digital Flashcards for Teachers, please see the preface beginning on page 4.