JumpStart 1st Grade Phonics

JumpStart 1st Grade Phonics is a 1st Grade workbook released in 2000. It is intended to teach various phonics-related skills. The book follows Frankie and Floyd's adventures journeying to and on Toy Island. It is inspired by JumpStart 1st Grade (1999).

It is also included as a section in JumpStart Prep: Entering 1st Grade and the JumpStart 1st Grade Jumbo Workbook.

Characters
(Only characters who are named, here or elsewhere, and/or have dialogue are listed.)
 * Frankie (main)
 * Floyd (main)

Summary
JumpStart Scholastic workbooks each have three sections for different topics. Each section has three difficulty levels and a review portion.

Level 1

 * Before Frankie and Floyd set sail to Toy Island, Floyd cleans up the ship. Readers are instructed to draw lines between pictures of things that rhyme. Readers are also asked to draw something that rhymes with hat in the space provided.
 * Frankie wants to check the weather before they sail. The weather report contains several phrases with pairs of rhyming words. The last word in each phrase is missing its first letter. Readers are instructed to fill in the missing letters.

Level 2

 * Frankie and Floyd begin sailing. Readers are instructed to finish words on the sails of the ship. Each sail has two pictures on it that rhyme, and each picture has the first of its word beside it. Readers should write the correct ending for each pair of words.
 * Frankie and Floyd take a break to go fishing in a small boat. Readers are instructed to match pairs of fish with rhyming words. One fish is by itself without a pair. Readers are asked to draw something that rhymes with the word on the lone fish on a separate piece of paper.
 * Frankie checks the map. There are many islands on the map, but their names are unfinished. Readers are instructed to look at the pictures for each island to figure out the names and then write the word families that finish the names for each island.
 * Frankie and Floyd play hide and seek around some barrels on the ship. Each barrel has a picture and the first letter of its word. Readers are instructed to write the word families that complete each word.

Level 3

 * Frankie and Floyd come across dolphins that will help lead them to Toy Island. Each dolphin and a picture and an unfinished word on it. Readers are instructed to write the long A or O phonogram that finishes each word.
 * Frankie and Floyd finally arrive at Toy Island. Readers are instructed to look at the objects on the ship and complete the word beside each object by filling in the blank with the correct long E or I phonogram.

Review

 * Frankie and Floyd must hop across rocks to get to the island. Readers are instructed to draw lines between rocks with the same phonogram.

Level 1

 * Frankie and Floyd check out Toy Island's playground. Readers are instructed to look at pictures of various things at the playground and write the blend that appears at the beginning of each word.
 * Next Frankie and Floyd visit Toy Island's toy shop. Readers are instructed to circle all of the toys that start with blends, then underline the blends in the name of each toy and write the blends below each toy's picture.

Level 2

 * Frankie and Floyd find several balls with pictures on them. Readers are instructed to identify the blend at the beginning of each picture's name and write the blend in the space provided.
 * At the Toy Island gift shop, Frankie and Floyd see many things in jars. Readers are instructed to identify the blend at the beginning of each object's name and write the blend in the space provided.
 * Next Frankie and Floyd find a shop that sells flags. Readers are instructed to circle all of the flags with pictures that have l-blends.
 * Frankie and Floyd get stuck in a group of toy soldiers. To send the toy soldiers back to their guardhouses, readers must look at the pictures on each toy soldier's hat, identify what kind of blend it contains, and then draw a line from the toy soldier to the guardhouse with the corresponding blend.

Level 3

 * Frankie and Floyd go bowling. To help them win a prize, readers must look at the pictures on each bowling pin and the letters that the picture's name begins with, then match each pin to the bowling ball with the ending blend that completes the picture's name.
 * Frankie and Floyd find some piggy banks. Readers are instructed to look at the letters on the coin above each piggy bank, then find the ending blend that makes a word when combined with the letters on the coin, and then write the completed word on the piggy bank.

Review

 * Frankie and Floyd go racing with Toy Island's race cars. Readers can help them reach the finish line by completing each word along the course with the correct beginning or ending blend.

Level 1

 * Frankie and Floyd visit Teddy Bear Town. Six teddy bears have pictures on their shirts. Readers are instructed to read the name of the picture on each shirt. If the word begins with "sh", that shirt should be colored blue. If the word begins with "th", that shirt should be colored red.
 * Frankie and Floyd go to a pool and play with water toys. Readers are asked to draw from each toy that begins with "ch" to Frankie and draw a line from each toy that begins with "wh" to Floyd.

Level 2

 * Frankie and Floyd ride on a Toy Island carousel. Readers are instructed to look at the picture on each carousel seahorse and write the two beginning letters of each picture's name below it. Then readers are asked to look for seahorses with specific beginning letters and write how many seahorses begin with those letters in the blanks provided.
 * Frankie and Floyd want to paint a wall. First, readers are instructed to color in all of spaces with words that begin with "wh" blue. This reveals a picture of a whale. Then readers are asked to answer some questions about the other words on the wall and write the answers in the blanks provided.
 * Frankie and Floyd start making their way back to their ship. Readers are asked to draw lines that show four paths they can take by following pictures with blends or digraphs.
 * At the shore, Frankie and Floyd find a bunch of pails and shovels. Each pail has a picture on it and the ending letters of that picture beside it. Readers are instructed to draw a line from each pail to the shovel with the beginning blend that completes the word.

Level 3

 * Frankie and Floyd find a huge chest full of surprises. Readers are asked to find all of things that end with digraphs, and then circle the ones that end with "ch", "sh", or "th". Readers are also asked to figure out the name of something that ends in "ch" based on the clues given and write its name in the blank provided.
 * Floyd wants to build sand castles. Readers can finish the sand castle by writing the digraphs in the blank spaces on the castle to complete words.

Review

 * Frankie and Floyd are finally ready to sail back. Readers can help them make their way from island to island by completing words along the path with the letters provided on each island.