Preschool Resources for Families

Early Preschool (ages 3 and 4)

The curriculum focuses on 5 phonological awareness skills and 2 early literacy skills. The phonological awareness skills are rhyme, initial phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, and final phoneme isolation. The early literacy skills are alphabet knowledge and language awareness.

The lessons include explicit language to teach the skills and provide directions for each activity. Teacher modeling and support is included within the lessons, along with hand motions. The beginning weeks of instruction provide teachers with lessons for “Setting the Stage” to help students learn about listening for sounds and developing an understanding of the language play activities.

Preschool (ages 4 and 5)

"The Purple Book," as it's often called, uses nursery rhymes to introduce preschool students to language play. The lessons include eight phonological and phonemic awareness skills, taught in a systematic progression. The advanced skill of initial phoneme substitution is taught beginning in Week 19, after students have learned to isolate, blend, and segment with phonemes.

Through two early literacy skills, students also develop alphabet knowledge through daily practice with an alphabet song and letter name and sound practice. Nursery rhymes are taught each week so that by the end of preschool your students will begin to build a repertoire of classic nursery rhymes as they learn to enjoy language play!