First Lesson Word List: a, big, dog, is, my Final Lesson Word List: way, glad, happy, how, ten, stand, very, name, walked, train Weekly lessons introduce a new word list (the number of words in the list increase as the book progresses) and gives practice writing and recognizing the words in the context of sentences and to describe illustrations. Some handwriting practice is included (including a page with directions for printing, and later in the text one for writing cursive letters). The text works a bit on the meaning of words but doesn't get into phonetic rules.