(Only the books for Unit 1 are pictured above.)

You can also order the consumables-only set for an additional student.

These 2nd Edition (1985-1986) materials are not compatible with the current 3rd edition (2016). Learn about changes in Rod and Staff's revised Grade 1 Reading curriculum...

Grade 1 of the Bible Nurture and Reader Series provides texts and workbooks for the pupil's basic needs in the first grade, with the exception of arithmetic and music. It correlates reading, phonics, language, spelling, and penmanship. The readers and workbooks are arranged in 5 units with 30 lessons in each unit, making a total of 150 lessons. Each lesson has five divisions: Reader, Reading Workbook, Phonics Workbook, Worksheet, and the optional Printing Practice. All of these divisions relate to one another in a given lesson, thus thoroughly acquainting the child with the lesson for each day.

Readers
We Learn About God (Unit 1)
We Learn More About God (Units 2-3)
We Learn About God's People (Units 4-5)
The first unit has the story of the Creation and the Fall of Man. The second unit reviews the story of the Creation and continues with stories of Cain, Abel, and Noah, incorporating practical applications. The lessons in the third unit are in poetry form and include stories from the Creation until after the Flood. The fourth unit contains stories about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The fifth unit contains stories about Joseph and Jesus. The story of Jesus is from the Gospel of Matthew.

Reading Workbooks
The reading workbooks have two pages for each lesson. The exercises are closely associated to the corresponding lesson in the readers. These exercises include practice with the vocabulary words, practice in writing sentences, drills for developing comprehension skills, and seatwork in various forms.

Phonics Workbooks
The phonics workbooks have two pages for each lesson. The first unit teaches the basic single consonant sounds as well as the short and long vowel sounds. The following four units continue to teach and review letter sounds and their combinations, give practice with phonetic words, and provide seatwork in phonics.

Worksheets Workbooks
The worksheets provide constructive seatwork and exercises in cutting, pasting, etc. There is generally one worksheet for each day, which is perforated for removal. In the first three units, the worksheets are closely associated with the reading lesson or the Bible memory verse. In the fourth unit are language worksheets; in the last unit a picture dictionary is made.

Printing Practice
The printing books that accompany this series are included in Grade 1 only, and it is appropriate to transfer to the penmanship series for the following grades. The BNRS Printing Practice teaches the formation of each letter as it is introduced for reading purposes.

(The Penmanship for Christian Writing Series gives more emphasis on strokes. Letters are introduced according to similarity in strokes. Either system can be used very effectively.)

Teacher's Manuals
The teacher's manuals for Unit 1, Units 2 & 3, and Units 4 & 5 include instructions for both phonics and reading. (Brief directions are also given for the worksheets and printing practice.) The first half of each volume contains instructions for the phonics workbooks and printing practice; the second half contains the instructions for the reader, reading workbook, and worksheets. There are general suggestions for teaching the various concepts as well as detailed procedures for teaching each lesson. The manuals include vocabulary and comprehension drills and reductions of the workbook pages, with the answers in red. By carefully following the directions, the inexperienced teacher can teach phonics with the satisfaction of knowing what to teach and how to present it effectively to the class.

Supplementary items (not included):

Table of Contents

Unit 1

Phonics	Reading
Pre-reading lesson
1. Short Aa 2. Short Ee 3. Short Ii Review and Practice 4. Short Oo 5. Short Uu 6. Ss Review and Practice	1. The Beauty of Color 2. The Good Shepherd 3. God's Promise of Seedtime and Harvest Review and Practice 4. The Sun 5. God Can See in the Dark 6. Beauty of the Tabernacle Review and Practice
Lesson
1. Tt 2. Mm 3. Cc Kk 4. Review 5. Bb 6. Ff 7. Nn 8. Yy 9. Review 10. Ww 11. Pp 12. Rr 13. Hh 14. Review 15. Gg 16. Ll 17. Vv 18. Dd 19. Review 20. Jj 21. Xx 22. Zz 23. Qq 24. Review 25. Long A 26. Long E 27. Long I 28. Long O 29. Long U 30. Review	1. God 2. Day 1 3. Day 2 4. Day 3 5. Day 4 6. Day 5 7. Day 6 8. God Made Everything 9. God Made Everything Good 10. God Can Do Everything 11. God Is Good 12. God Can See Us 13. We Can See What God Made 14. We Can See What God Said 15. God Is Light 16. We Want to Read 17. God Is Very Good 18. God and Little Things 19. God Is Good to Us 20. God Is Everything to Us 21. God and the Fish and Birds 22. God and the Animals 23. God and Man 24. God and the Woman 25. Man and Woman 26. The First Home 27. Bad Satan 28. What Satan Did 29. Adam and Eve Do Not Obey 30. God Loved Adam and Eve Unit 1 Word List

Unit 2

Phonics	Reading
Lesson
1. Long A Spellings: a-e, ai, ay 2. Long E Spellings: ee, ae, -e 3. Long I Spellings: i-e, ie, -y 4. Long O Spellings: o-e, oa, oe, ow, -o 5. Long U Spellings: u-e, ew 6. Review of Long Vowels 7. Consonant Digraph: sh   8. Consonant Digraph: th, th 9. Consonant Digraph: wh 10. Consonant Digraph: ch, tch 11. Double Consonant Endings: ss, ll, ff, zz, ck 12. Review 13. Consonant Blends: sk, sc, sm, st 14. Consonant Blends: sn, sp, sl, sw   15. Review 16. Consonant Blends: bl, br, cl, cr 17. Consonant Blends: fl, fr, gl, gr 18. Consonant Blends: pl, pr, tw, tr 19. Review 20. Consonant Blends: dr, scr, str, spr 21. Consonant Blends: spl, squ, shr, thr   22. Review 23. Final Blends: lt, lk, lp, lf 24. Final Blends: xt, sp, st, sk 25. Final Blends: nt, ft, pt, ct 26. Final Blends: mp, nd, nk, ng 27. Review 28. Endings: nch, ild, ind   29. Endings: old, olt, ost, oll 30. Review	Section 1: What God Gave 1. Father and Mother 2. Children 3. The Home 4. A Time to Work 5. A Time to Rest 6. Day and Night 7. Everything Good Section 2: What God Likes 8. Happy Homes 9. Happy Children 10. When We Work 11. When We Are Kind to Animals 12. When We Like What God Gives 13. When We Are Helpers 14. When We Obey Section 3: What God Does Not Like 15. When People Do Not Obey 16. When People Are Angry 17. When People Are Not Sorry 18. When People Hate Others 19. When People Lie 20. When People Do Not Love God 21. When People Are Bad Section 4: How God Took Care of Noah 22. God Sees a Godly Family 23. God Tells Noah's Family What to Do 24. God Helps Noah's Family 25. God Calls Noah 26. God Sends a Flood 27. God Lets the Waters Go Down 28. God Lets Noah and His Family Come Out Section 5: After the Flood 29. God Makes a Promise 30. God Sees a Tower

Unit 3

Phonics	Reading
Lesson
1. Digraph: o͞o 2. Digraph: oo 3. Other Spellings for /o͞o/ and /oo/ 4. Diphthongs: oi, oy 5. Diphthongs: ou, ow 6. Review 7. Modified Vowel: er (er, ir, ur) 8. Modified Vowel: är 9. Modified Vowel: ôr 10. Review of Modified Vowels 11. Vowel Sound: ô 12. Digraph aw = /ô/ 13. Other Spellings for /ô/ 14. Sometimes s = /z/ 15. Suffixes in Plurals: s, es 16. Suffixes in Verbs: s, es 17. Suffix: ed 18. Suffix: ing 19. Review of Suffixes 20. Two-Syllable Words 21. Sometimes y = /ē/ 22. Sometimes c = /s/ 23. Sometimes g = /j/ 24. The Letters dge = /j/ 25. Review Long Vowel Rules 26. Review o Sound and Diphthongs 28. Review Modified Vowels 29. Review Consonant Blends 29. Review Sounds of s and y 30. Review Sounds of c and g	1. Adam 2. Bible 3. Children 4. Daytime 5. Eve 6. Father 7. God 8. Heaven 9. If 10. Just 11. Kind 12. Light 13. Mountains 14. Noah 15. Others 16. Promise 17. Quiet 18. Remember 19. Singing 20. Truthful 21. Under and Understand 22. Very 23. Work 24. Six 25. Years 26. Zebra 27. One 28. Two 29. Three 30. Four Unit 2 Word List Unit 3 Word List

Unit 4

Phonics	Reading
Lesson
1. Silent Letters: kn, wr 2. Silent Letters: gn, gu, bu 3. Silent Letters: mb, gn, bt 4. Silent Letters: tch, alk 5. Review 6. Silent Letters: gh 7. Silent Letters: gh 8. Words That End With y 9. Words That End With /ī/ 10. Words That End With /ē/ 11. Long Vowels in Two-Syllable Words 12. Compound Words 13. Compound Words 14. Words With ear, or 15. Words With are 16. Words With air 17. Words With ear, eer 18. Words With oar 19. Digraph ea = /e/ 20. Digraph ea = /a/ 21. Sounds of a and e 22. Sounds of o 23. Digraph ou = /o͞o/ 24. Rules for c and k 25. Double Consonant Endings 26. Exceptions to ss 27. Ending Sound /v/ 28. Review Diphthongs and ind Ending 29. The Vowels y and w 30. Review Consonant Digraphs and Blends	1. Why Abram Left Home 2. Where Abram Went 3. A Quarrel 4. Lot Chooses 5. God's Promise to Abraham 6. Three Men Visit Abraham 7. Abraham Prays 8. A Big Fire 9. God Helps Hagar 10. A Hard Test 11. Abraham Obeys 12. A Man Sent 13. God Helps the Man 14. A Wife for Isaac 15. Twin Boys 16. Isaac Moves 17. No Quarrels 18. Rebekah's Plan 19. Rebekah Gets Jacob Ready 20. Jacob Gets the Blessing 21. Esau Comes Home 22. Jacob Leaves Home 23. God Talks to Jacob 24. Jacob Meets Rachel 25. A Mean Trick 26. Jacob Leaves Laban 27. Laban Goes After Jacob 28. Jacob Is Afraid 29. Jacob and Esau Meet 30. Home at Last

Unit 5

Phonics	Reading
Lesson
1. Compound and Two-Syllable Words 2. Endings: tle, ble, ple 3. Endings: gle, dle, kle, ckle 4. Suffixes: y, ly 5. Suffixes: ful, less 6. Review 7. Suffixes: ed, ing 8. Doubling Consonants With Suffixes 9. Suffixes: er, est 10. Root Words and Suffixes 11. Doubling Consonants for Vowel Suffixes 12. Dropping Final e for Suffixes 13. When to Drop Final e 14. Review Suffixes 15. Prefixes: a, be, un 16. Prefixes: de, in, ex 17. Prefixes: re, dis, pre 18. Review Prefixes and Suffixes 19. Review 20. Digraphs: ph, gh 21. Letters ti, si, ci = /sh/ 22. Sometimes s = /zh/ 23. Review Initial Consonants 24. Review Final Consonants 25. Review Medial Consonants 26. Review Vowel Sounds 27. Review Variant and Modified Vowels 28. Review Consonant Digraphs and Silent Letters 29. Review Prefixes and Suffixes 30. Review Rules for Adding Suffixes	1. Joseph's Dreams 2. Joseph Is Sold 3. Joseph in Prison 4. Two Dreams 5. The King Dreams 6. Joseph Made Ruler 7. Joseph Sees His Brothers 8. Joseph Tests His Brothers 9. The Brothers in Trouble 10. The Brothers Go Again 11. The Silver Cup 12. Joseph Tells Who He Is 13. Joseph Is Kind 14. Living and Dying in a Strange Land 15. Jesus Is Born 16. Jesus and the King 17. John the Baptist 18. Jesus Preaches 19. Jesus Heals People 20. Everything Obeys Jesus 21. Jesus Doing Good 22. The King and John the Baptist 23. How Jesus Fed the Hungry People 24. Walking on the Water 25. Jesus Talks to the Disciples 26. Some People Love Jesus 27. Some People Hate Jesus 28. What the Disciples Did 29. Jesus Dies 30. Jesus Is Alive Unit 4 Word List Unit 5 Word List