Intended for practitioners, this comprehensive, year-long reading readiness curriculum is for use with 2 1/2 -- 6-year-old children. Readiness skills are taught through other subjects appropriate for young children. A major objective of the curriculum is to establish a positive motivational framework for reading instruction, based on early learning experiences that are pleasant, nonpressured, and exciting. The curriculum is arranged into seven sections, with each section presented in a separate notebook that contains daily activity plans. The curriculum was designed so that any adult following the activity guides would be able to present a variety of semi-individualized experiences for children. Section 1 is a 36-week set of daily lessons on recognizing uppercase and lowercase initial consonants, vowels, and several digraphs, with focus on the sounds that they make. Personal experience charts and conventional reading readiness activities are included. (DP)