Phonemic Awareness

Grades: PreK-1

About: These daily 10-minute lessons focus on phonemic awareness skills as well as letter/sound recognition and language awareness skills. This is a research-based program.

Link: Heggerty

Phonemic Awareness Phonics

Grades: PreK

About: A multi-sensory, research-based program that uses characters as well as mouth, hand, and body clues to teach the sounds of letters.

Link: Lively Letters

Phonics

Grades: PreK-3

About: A systematic, multi-sensory, research-based phonics program that includes the elements of Structured Literacy.

Link: Fundations

Fluency

Grades: 1-6

About: A research-based program where students build fluency by reading short, nonfiction passages. This is used as an intervention for students needing fluency instruction.

Link: Read Naturally

Application of Decoding Skills

Grades: K-2

About: Geodes are knowledge-building decodable books that are aligned with the scope and sequence of skills in Fundations. Decodable readers contain the sound and spelling patterns that students have been taught in phonics lessons. Reading these types of texts is important in helping students apply what they are learning in Fundations to their reading of connected text.

For more information about Decodable Texts please see the Parent Resources page.

Link: Geodes

Comprehension

Grades: K-6

About: A research-based approach to teaching consistent comprehension strategies across grade levels. Strategies and skills include critical thinking, main idea skills, text structure knowledge, top-down topic webs, two-column notes, summarizing, and question generating.

Link: Keys to Literacy

Vocabulary

Grades: 2-6

The Key Vocabulary Routine incorporates instructional practices that have consistently been identified in research as most effective for growing student vocabulary in any subject area. Some of the topics, strategies and skills addressed are activities for previewing vocabulary, activities for teaching words by relating them to background knowledge and related words, using word parts to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, and using vocabulary templates to learn everything about a word.

Link: Keys to Literacy

Writing

Grades: K-6

About: Empowering Writers is a genre-based curriculum for K-8. Its research-based methodology includes instruction in Narrative, Expository/Informative and Opinion writing.

Link: Empowering Writers

i-Ready Instruction

Grades: K-6

About: After students take the i-Ready Diagnostic, a personalized learning path is designed with interactive lessons at a pace that is just right for them.

Link: i-Ready Instruction