BJU Press First Grade English Skills is a correlated, phonics-based, comprehensive package. It makes the teacher's job easier by being a correlated and comprehensive package. It promotes a comprehension-centered goal for word recognition. It emphasizes phonics as the key to word recognition. It uses whole-class teaching, individualization, and homogeneous grouping. It furnishes the teacher with the means to make learning enjoyable. It includes twenty-seven Bible-centered themes and teaches Christian principles. It provides a comprehension-centered approach to listening. It sets forth the writing skills in a natural progression. - Introduction.