Overview

Fundations® is a multisensory and systematic phonics, spelling, and handwriting program that benefits all K-3 students.  It also includes a supplementary activity set for Pre-K students. Fundations is designed as a whole-class, general education program used for prevention (Tier 1) purposes. It also can be taught in a small group or 1:1 setting for intervention (Tier 2). 

Informed by an extensive research base and following principles of instruction demonstrating success for a wide variety of learners, key features include:

• Thoroughly teaches the foundational skills, and significantly supports the reading, writing, and language standards, found in  states’ rigorous college- and career-ready standards.

• Presents the following concepts and skills in a cumulative manner from Unit to Unit and year to year:  

  • Letter formation

  • Phonological and phonemic awareness

  • Sound mastery

  • Phonics, word study, and advanced word study

  • Irregular (trick) word instruction

  • Vocabulary

  • Fluency 

  • Comprehension strategies 

  • Written composition (spelling and handwriting)

• Integrates skill instruction so that a daily lesson teaches and then reinforces corresponding skills.

• Scaffolds learning while teaching all skills explicitly, sequentially, and systematically.

• Actively engages students in learning through the use of multisensory techniques, such as when teaching students sounds, their representative letters, and words with spelling options.

• Provides multiple opportunities for skills practice and application to build mastery.

• Monitors student learning through formative assessment tools built into the program.

• Includes comprehensive and teacher-friendly materials to facilitate teachers’ use of the program and promote student motivation. 

• Guides teachers on how to meet individual student needs by differentiating instruction.

• Supports teachers through the online Wilson Learning Community, offering clear demonstrations of each teaching activity type used in the program.

• Helps teachers achieve many of the requirements of state, local, and professional standards. 

• Encourages parental involvement through the use of the Fundations Home Support Packet. 

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Level 2:

Fundations Level 2 Trick Words with Audio

Vowel Sounds-Fundations

FUNdations r-controlled vowels

Fundations Vowel Teams

By the end of Level 2, students will be able to:

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills in decoding words

• Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes)–up to six sounds

• Identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, and digraph blends

• Identify parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)

• Identify all six syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, r-controlled, vowel digraph/diphthong, and consonant-le

• Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words

• Read and spell words with short vowels

• Read and spell words with long vowels in vowel-consonant-e and open syllables

• Read and spell words with r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)

• Read and spell words with vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)

• Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)

• Read and spell words with suffixes (-s, -es, -ed,-ing, -est, -ish, -able, -ive, -y, -ful, -ment, -less, -ness, -ly, -ty)

• Read and spell words with common prefixes (un-, dis-, mis-, non-, trans-, pre-, pro-, re-, de-)

• Read and spell phonetically regular one-, two- and three-syllable words

• Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences

• Read and spell the first 200 high frequency words including irregular words

• Divide multisyllabic words

• Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification

• Use synonyms

• Know some multiple meaning words

• Apply dictionary skills

• Use correct writing position and pencil grip

• Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate

• Spell words with options for the grapheme representation for sounds with use of a spell checker or dictionary

• Apply correct punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point)

• Apply capitalization rules for beginning of sentences and names of people

• Read controlled stories with fluency, expression and understanding

• Read approximately 90 words per minute with fluency and understanding

• Retell short narrative stories, recounting key ideas and details

• Retell facts from informational text

• Locate facts and details in narrative and informational writing

• Skim for information

• Make judgments, predictions from given facts

• Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase

• Determine the meaning of a new word when a prefix is added to a known word

• Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of a compound word

• Identify real life connections between words and their use — answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions with narrative and informational texts

• Answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions with narrative and informational text

• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges  

• Determine the central message of a story

• Identify the main topic/purpose of an informational text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs

• Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe

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