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Skill book 1: sounds and names of letters teaches the name and one sound for each letter in the alhabet plus the writing of smalll and capital letters and numerals. It also lays an essential foundation in word attack and comprehension skills which will be mastered in subsequent skill books. Vocabulary is controlled; 132 words, including variants, are introduced and used in context. The correlated reader, In the valley, introduces additional words. Sentence structures are limited to common patterns like subject-verb-object.