Primary Phonics series by Barbara W. Makar. Educational series focused on use of principles of phonics to build strong reading skills. Primary Phonics storybooks have been published since the 1960s and the workbooks and related materials since the 1970s. Barbara W. Makar was a learning disabilities teacher you used her training to build a durable and proven series of books that, though originally designed to assist children with reading disabilities, have been used for building the basic reading skills in children generally.