After over a decade of researching a variety of approaches to teaching these foundational skills, we have come up with what we think is the most creative, comprehensive, and developmentally appropriate phonics skills instruction anywhere. This video package includes instructions on how to imaginatively introduce and practice the following concepts: vowel teams; diphthongs; R-controlled vowels UR & IR; -er as a suffix; "Kind Old Words": long vowel word families; short vowel onset and rime; Long vowels +R; intermediate inflectional endings;-tch vs -ch endings; Silent E+; the letter X; the letter Y