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Achieving Literacy for Life | Fundations®

Building a foundation for reading and spellingGrades K–3

Thoroughly teaches the Foundational

Skills of the Common Core

State Standards

Prevention & InterventionFundations® thoroughly teaches the Foundational Skills of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It also strongly supports the reading, writing and language standards, providing mastery instruction for many of the goals in each of those areas as well.

As a supplemental program delivered for 30 minutes per day, Fundations will help teachers achieve many of the requirements of state, local, and professional standards. More importantly, it incorporates the science of reading and writing in a carefully designed and highly integrated manner.

Fundations addresses all � ve areas of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics and word study, � uency, vocabulary, and comprehension), plus spelling and handwriting in a multisensory, systematic approach.

Fundations® Implementation Fundations’ research-based approach and extensive program materials allow K-3 teachers to con� dently present a carefully structured reading and spelling curriculum using engaging, multisensory techniques. It is implemented as a phonics and spelling supplement or the word study block to the core literacy program.

Prevention Model (Tier 1)

The Standard Lesson is provided to all students in the general education classroom (as part of the word study block of the core language arts program) for 30 minutes daily.

Early Intervention Model (Tier 2)

For at-risk students in need of strategic intervention, Fundations is conducted in a small group setting by the classroom teacher and/or interventionist.

• If Fundations is already provided in a Tier 1, whole-class setting, this strategic intervention consists of double dose lessons for an additional 30 minutes 3-5 times per week.

• If Fundations is not provided in a Tier 1, whole-class setting, this strategic intervention must include the daily standard lesson plus the double dose lesson, totaling 60-minute lessons 3-5 times per week.

Grades K–3

Universal Screening grades K –3FUNDATIONS® INSTRUCTION

Double Dose LessonAdditional 30 minutes

3–5 x / week

WRS INSTRUCTION3–5 x / week

60–90 minutes

FUNDATIONS® INSTRUCTIONStandard Lesson30 minutes daily

Comprehensive Assessment / WADEProgress MonitoringSigni� cant de� cits grades 2 –3

(further assess)

PREVENTION (Tier 1)

STRATEGIC INTERVEN-TION (Tier 2)

INTENSIVE INTERVEN-TION (Tier 3)

Fundations provides a multi-tiered system of support

Fundations can be part of a multi-tiered literacy solution, including a literature-based language arts program in grades K-3 and Wilson Reading System®, an intensive intervention program.

Prevention & Intervention

To learn more about Wilson Professional Development, visit www.wilsonlanguage.com.

Schools and districts can contact the Client Relations team at 800.899.8454 to develop a comprehensive plan for success and sustainability.

Comprehensive Materials for Teachers and Students

Fundations presents all skills in a systematic and sequential manner in four curriculum levels: Level K, Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3.

Level K Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

Teacher Materials: The Teacher’s Kit provides an explicit manual with day-to-day learning plans. Learning activities include guidelines for di� erentiated instruction for advanced and struggling students. Extensive support materials are used to demonstrate the concepts using visual and kinesthetic strategies. A Home Support Pack encourages family involvement.

Membership in the online Prevention Learning Community includes video demonstrations, lesson plan support, print materials, teacher checklists, expert tips, and discussion boards.

Student Materials: Student manipulatives provide multisensory, interactive opportunities that engage students in the “fun” of building a foundation. Kits include Dry Erase Writing Tablets, Letter Tiles and Letter Boards, Student Notebooks, Student Composition Books and Desk Strips.

Implementation Support and Teacher Professional Development The goal is to work collaboratively with districts to improve student outcomes by fully implementing Fundations with increasing � delity. Wilson provides professional development and support that is necessary to get the program up and running. This includes workshops and coaching for each level.

A sustainability plan provides districts with a path to maintain program � delity and e� ectiveness over time by developing quali� ed in-district personnel to provide program workshops and ongoing teacher support.

Material Guidelines

Initial Implementation: One Teacher’s Kit, one Student Kit for each student. (Multi-level Teacher’s Kits are available for the intervention model.)

Subsequent Implementation: Only replenish the student consumables for each student.

To order materials online, visit www.wilsonlanguage.com/store

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Phonemic Awareness

Students identify and isolate sounds of spoken words, segment phonemes in words, and blend phonemes into words. Phoneme substitution, addition, and manipulation activities are done with letter cards and tiles to assist with cognitive reinforcement. The Wilson tapping procedure for blending and segmenting of phonemes is used.

Phonics and Word Study

Letter-sound knowledge is taught to automaticity to enhance word recognition. Students are explicitly and systematically taught word structure following the six syllable types. Students learn high frequency sight words during the Trick Word learning activity.

Vocabulary Development

Targeted vocabulary is introduced and practiced during Word of the Day, Word Talk, Dictation, and Word Play activities for phonetically regular words. Students develop a personal resource dictionary in their Student Notebooks. Students practice these words with repeated and multiple exposures.

Reading Fluency

Fluency® / Basic Kits include repeated reading practice using controlled text (95-100% decodable). There are controlled sound drills, wordlists, phrases and stories for each unit of study. Teachers model � uency and students learn prosody with a speci� c phrasing technique.

Comprehension Strategies

Decodable text is used during Storytime. Guidance is provided on prosody, visualization, incorporating pictures for retelling stories, applying speaking and listening skills, and explaining narrative vs. informative texts. Fundations is designed to be combined with more formalized literature instruction.

Spelling and Handwriting

Encoding is taught in correspondence to decoding patterns. From the beginning students systematically learn punctuation, capitalization, and proofreading skills. Students also learn letter formation and how to write clear, legible manuscript and cursive handwriting at an appropriate rate.

Teach the critical skills necessary for reading and spellingFundations® is a supplemental phonics/spelling program delivered to general education classrooms in 30-minute daily lessons. This is appropriate when the core language arts program does not present a systematic phonics approach. Fundations is designed to be used with the existing literature-based reading instruction to provide a comprehensive language arts program.

Learn more about Fundations® at www.fundations.com