Steck-Vaughn Core Skills: Phonics guides children to become successful and confident readers. The skill-specific practice pages link phonics with spelling, reading, and writing so students build language skills through integrated activities. Reading comprehension and Quiz Yourself! sections in each unit provide feedback on student understanding. Core Skills: Phonics gives children additional reading practice in reading words while applying phonics skills. The series supports the use of visual and auditory modalities to explore the skills, reviews and reinforces decoding skills through engaging activities. books feature skill boxes that provide phonics rules and site examples. Aligns to the National Reading Panel (NRP) guidelines for phonics, phonemics awareness and comprehension.