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What does a Fundations lesson look like?
- Drill Sounds
- Word of the Day
- Word Talk
- Trick Words
- Echo/Find Letters and Words
- Make It Fun
- Dictation (Dry Erase)
- Storytime
Program Highlights
- Emphasis on systematic phonics and study of word structure
- Skills taught explicitly and systematically
- Instruction is cumulative and scaffolds presented skills
- Motor-memory learning-fundations connects gross motor memory to learning
- More memorable than fine motor memory
- Examples include: sky-writing, tracing, and tapping
- Teacher model with "Echo" the owl puppet directing students to repeat sounds, words, and sentences
- Assessments monitor student learning and skill mastery throughout the program
- Extensive practice provides multiple opportunities for skills application
Skill Development in Fundations
- Letter Formation
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
- Sound Mastery
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Irregular (trick) Word Instruction
- Fluency
- Comprehension Written Composition
Scope and Sequence
Unit 1
- Letter-keyword-sound for consonants and vowels
- Concept of consonant digraphs
- Letter-keyword-sound for digraphs
- Concept of consonant blends
- Concept of digraph blends
- 3 spellings for /k/ sound (c, k, ck)
- Closed syllable type
- Sample words: quilt, elf, shred, kick, crush
Unit 2
- Bonus letter spelling rule: ff, ll, ss, and sometimes zz
- Glued (welded) sounds: all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk
- Blending and reading words with glued sounds
- Segmenting and spelling words with bonus letters and glued sounds
- Prosody
- Story retelling
- Vowel teams: ai, ay, ee, ea, ey
- Sample words: spill, string, stand, toss
Unit 3
- Concept of closed syllable exceptions
- Glued sounds: ild, ind, old, olt, ost
- Story retelling
- Fluent passage reading
- Vowel teams: oi, oy
- Sample words: wild, find, cold, colt, post
Unit 4
- Review suffixes: s, es, ed, ing
- Comparison suffixes: er, est
- Additional sounds of –ed /d/ and /t/
- Spelling procedure for words with suffixes
- Forming plurals
- Forming present and past tense
- Categorizing vowel and consonant suffixes
- Fluent passage reading
- Making judgements and predictions form given facts
- Vowel teams: oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew
- Sample words: stronger, tallest, spilled, passed
Unit 5
- Reading and spelling two-syllable words
- Review syllable concept in multisyllabic words
- Compound words
- Syllable division rules for dividing between closed syllables
- Spelling of ic at the end of multisyllabic words
- New suffixes: ful, ment, ness, less, able, en, ish, au and aw
- Sample words: catnip, habit, tonic, mascot, hundred, freshen, boldness
Unit 6
- Review vowel-consonant-e syllables
- s - /s/and /z/
- Spelling option procedure
- Two syllable words with closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables
- Compound words
- Vowel-consonant-e exception (-ive)
- Suffix – ive
- Sample words: hope, confuse, reptile, olive, inventive
Unit 7
- Open syllable type
- Y as a vowel
- Combining open syllables with closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables
- Additional syllable division rules
- y, ly, ty suffixes
- Sample words: no, music, relate, cry, baby, chilly
Unit 8
- R-contolled syllable
- Sounds of ar and or
- Combining r-controlled syllables with other syllable types
- Sample words: fort, part, orbit, party
Unit 9
- Sound of er, ir, and ur
- Spelling option procedure for /er/ sound
- Combining r-contolled syllables with er, ir, and ur with other syllable types
- Dictionary skills
- Sample words: burst, termite, dirty
Unit 10
- Double vowel syllable type
- Sounds of ai, and ay
- Use of spelling option procedure for /a/ sound
- Combining all types of syllables
- Homophones
- Sample words: paint, display
Unit 11
- Sounds of ee, ea, ey
- Use of spelling option procedure for /e/ sound
- Sample words: cheap, keep, chimney
Unit 12
- Sounds of oi and oy
- Spelling generalizations of /oi/ sound
- Sample words: moist, toys, paperboy
Unit 13
- The long o sound of oa, oe, and ow
- Use of spelling option procedure for /o/ sound
- Review of suffix endings
- Sample words: road, doe, grown
Unit 14
- The /ou/ sound of ou and ow
- Flexibility in sound choices for reading
- Spelling generalizations of /ou/ sound
- Sample words: sample, drown, plow
Unit 15
- The /ü/ sound of oo, ou, ue, and ew
- The /u/ sound of ue
- Use of spelling option procedure for /ü/ and /u/ sounds
- Sample words: spoon, soup, overdue, blew, argue
Unit 16
- Sounds of au and aw
- Spelling generalizations for the /o/ sound
- Sample words: claw, aunt
Unit 17
- Consonant-le syllable type
- Spelling consonant-le words
- Review of all 6 syllable types
- Favorite, sugar, trouble, couple, young
- Sample words: gobble, tumble, noble
