FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Foundational Skills are prerequisite to literacy success.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
PHONICS WORKSHOP

DECODABLES

Practice phonics and high-frequency words in context, while nurturing a love for reading.
  • Encourages students to "blend" and not guess unfamiliariliar words
  • Helps students experience immediate success
  • Reinforces phonics taught in the classroom within the context of a story
  • Helps students make sense of phonics: we learn phonics in order to read fun books
  • Fiction and nonfiction titles offer authentic practice with phonics and sight words.
> Letterland-Decodables Grade K Correlation
> Letterland-Decodables Grade 1 Correlation
> Letterland-Decodables Grade 2 Correlation

WORD STUDY VOCABULARY

Help students understand the meaning of new words encountered in books and texts.
  • Each kit contains a full year of explicit, data-driven instruction.
  • Each Skill Bag includes everything you need to assess, target, and teach skills.
  • Skill-building process improves students' spelling, reading and vocabulary.
  • ​Each kit can be used for sequential classroom instruction or targeted intervention.
​> Word Study Vocabulary Scope & Sequence

PHONICS

Teach Phonemic Awareness and Phonics with targeted resources. Each skill bag includes everything needed to teach a targeted skill in a classroom or intervention session.
  • StartUp Phonics develops Phonemic Awareness and letter knowledge.
  • BuildUp Phonics focuses on vowels, spelling and letter combinations.
  • SpiralUp Phonics improves multisyllabic word-solving strategies.  ​
> Targeted Instruction for Struggling Readers: It Takes a Team - 2012​
> Kindergarten START-UP Scope & Sequence
> 1st Grade BUILD-UP Scope & Sequence
> ​2nd Grade SPIRAL-UP Scope & Sequence