Teachers nationwide trust Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics for the curriculum resources they need to empower students with reading skills.
The Student book for the second grade level of Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics includes 208 pages. Units of study include the following: initial, medial, and final consonants, short and long vowels, vowels in compound words, two syllable words, hard and soft c and g, blends, vowels sounds of y, consonant digraphs, words ending in le, r-controlled vowels, contractions, plural and inflectional endings, suffixes, vowel pairs, vowel diagraphs, diphthongs, prefixes, tests, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and definitions and rules.
For over 40 years, teachers nationwide have trusted Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics to empower students with the skills they need to become readers for life. Today, we continue to keep this classic curriculum current by listening to your students' needs and updating our materials as those needs grow and change. Plaid Phonics offers engaging stories and appealing graphics. MCP Plaid Phonics can enrich whatever reading approach works best for you and your students. Use this trusted classic for complete phonics decoding instruction. Now and in the future, Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics promises to continue making students' decoding experiences successful.
We recognize that learning to read is a complex process. Students need to draw on many strategies and it's been proven that one critical strategy is phonics - the mastery of letter-sound relationships. Time and time again, teachers discover there's no better way for students to master phonics than with the systematic, intensive approach found in MCP phonics. Research has shown, children learn in different ways. Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics addresses the individual needs of each and every student with activities that meet those needs.
What makes Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics the phonics program of choice? Its vast supply of activiities and opportunities accomodate student needs in any teaching environment from classrooms to homeschools. Teachers across the country have asked us to provide tips and strategies to help diverse student populations acquire English. New activities can be found in the Modern Curriculum Press Phonics Teacher Resource Guide to help these students benefit from phonics instruction.
When it comes to teaching phonics, every teacher has his or her own teaching style. Modern Curriculum Press Phonics understands this and presents you with the flexible tools you need to make phonics instruction easy, no matter how you choose to teach. Every page in both the Student Edition and Teacher Resource Guide has been improved, making learning phonics an even more successful experience for everyone involved. However, close attention has been paid to mix these new features with the program's best to keep the Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics as your trusted classic. | 
