*Use these strategies if your child is stuck on a word!
Lips the Fish
Stretchy Snake
- Stretch out the letter sounds!
Chunky Monkey
- Chunk the word to find smaller words.
Skippy Frog
- Skip the word and come back to it after reading the other words around it.
Eagle Eye
- Look at the picture clues for help.
Flippy Dolphin
- Flip between short and long vowel sounds to see which sounds right.
Rhyming Lion
- Use a word that rhymes and follows the spelling pattern.
Helpful Kangaroo
- If you’ve tried all of the other beanie friends, ask someone to help you!
Fundations, a Wilson program, makes learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for life-long literacy. This is a goal for all students in the Springfield School District. Students in grades K-3 receive a systematic program in critical foundational skills emphasizing:
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics / word study
- High frequency word study
- Reading fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension strategies
- Handwriting
- Spelling
Small Group Guided Reading
Small group instruction will include:
- Decoding / phonics
- Vocabulary
- Fluency
- Phonemic Awareness
- Comprehension
- Sight words
Small group instruction will include instruction in reading comprehension strategies:
- Making connections
- Visualizing
- Making Inferences
- Synthesizing
- Predicting
- Monitoring Understanding
- Questioning