Fundations Skills

Program Highlights

Letter formation associated with sounds
Write manuscript letters in lower-case and upper-case
Print knowledge and concepts of print: track print left to right/top to bottom of page; match spoken words to printed words
Identify separate words in an oral sentence, segment words into syllables; segment syllables into sounds (phonemes) - up to 3 sounds
Phoneme substitution, deletion, addition, and manipulation activities done with letter cards and tiles to assist with cognitive manipulation
Isolate phonemes using tapping procedure for both blending and segmenting (segment phonemes in words; blend phonemes into words)
Alphabetic order
Know a-z letter/sound relationships (map letter to sound and sound to letter)
Read and spell approximately 200 CVC words
Read targeted high-frequency words: the, a, and, is, was
Identify correct punctuation (period or question mark)
Identify upper-case letter use for beginning of sentences and names of people
Retell short narrative stories
Echo-read a passage with correct phrasing and expression