Wilson Program
Wilson Fundations for K-3 is a phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling program for the general education classroom. Fundations is based upon the Wilson Reading System® principles and serves as a prevention program to help reduce reading and spelling failure. Fundations® provides instruction that is highly interactive and participatory. Teachers use direct instruction and modeling, with the assistance of owl puppets named Echo and Baby Echo to prompt students’ responses. Much of the learning comes in the form of motor-memory learning. Sky writing, letter tracing, and “word tapping” are key tools utilized for internalization of skills. Phonetic concepts are continually reinforced and practiced in new and engaging ways.
The writing grid used in the program names each line. The top line is the sky line, the dotted line is the plane line, the grass line is where most letters stop, but some letters go below (p, j, g, q, y) and touch the worm line. Click on attachments below for the lower case letter formation guide, the Writing Lines, and the keyword letter cards (the Alphabet Letter Game)
