The purpose of phonics is to help students read new words by sounding them out. The student who uses phonics to decode a word can associate the printed letters with the speech sound the letters represent and then blend them together to pronounce the word. This book provides practice for twenty-three initial sounds in words—the sounds of the twenty-one consonants and the two sounds of c and g. Initial consonant sounds are presented in order of difficulty. Lessons start by have students circle objects that begin with a particular sound. Next, students are asked to write the letter representing an initial sound or a letter to complete a word. Various exercises completing words, decoding words, and/or matching words and pictures are also included. Students finish the workbook by writing words that name pictures, choosing words to complete sentences, or answer riddles.