This full-year course, designed for Pre-K children ages 3 and/or 4, contains a variety of materials and media to interest and engage young children in the vitally important task of preparing to learn to read. Based on many years of successful implementation and cutting edge research in the fields of early reading acquisition and the brain, Foundations of Literacy is effective and fun for children and their teachers.
A powerful multi-sensory approach, combining colorful visuals and manipulatives, invites children to engage in activities to stimulate oral language, concepts about print, vocabulary, writing and oral comprehension. As this strong foundation is being laid, children are introduced to basic phonemic awareness and letter recognition activities through an engaging cast of letter characters, each with its own action song. The sequence of simple activities assures that children not only learn essential basics, but they learn to love the letters and their sounds as well!
A colorful, easy to use comprehensive teachers’ manual with weekly lesson plans is filled with a powerful sequence of developmentally appropriate activities and lessons that children love. Teachers will appreciate the simplicity of the program and the materials directions that make daily lesson planning and teaching self-explanatory and convenient. |
