Foundations

Grade Levels: K-2

The Foundations program offers crucial intervention for delayed readers and provides teachers with the latest assessment and instructional techniques for use along with exciting and challenging books. It offers everything you need to build a strong foundation for early literacy.

Foundations' 237 student books integrate the best research-based knowledge to help students develop independent reading strategies. Exciting fiction and nonfiction books motivate children to master increasingly difficult reading skills as they work through eleven carefully sequenced levels.

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About the Program

Features:

Meets Reading First criteria
Engaging, sequentially appropriate titles incorporate opportunities to teach skills and strategies
Includes comprehensive resources for early reading intervention

Components:

Complete Sets

The complete sets feature 237 titles spanning 11 Early Emergent and Upper Emergent levels, available in the following configurations:

6 each of 237 student books, 2 Records of Reading Behavior books, and 2 teacher guides in 5 classroom display boxes
1 each of 237 student books in 1 classroom display box

Early Emergent books feature:

Well-spaced large print
Consistent text placement
Direct match of text and illustrations
Story line found in text as well as illustrations
Repetition of phrases, patterns, and high-frequency words
Some variations in sentence structure
Stories have a simple beginning, middle, and ending
Surprise endings or twists

Upper Emergent books feature:

Variety of font and text placement
Table of contents, glossary, index, captions with phrases and/or sentences in nonfiction
Illustrations are detailed and provide moderate to minimal support
Detailed illustrations depict characters, setting, and events
Frequent use of known and unknown high-frequency words
Variety in syntax and word tenses
Some complex structures with compound sentences
Moderately complex story structures with problem/solution emphasized
Characters and events increasingly developed

Foundations Teacher Guides

Foundations teacher guides are specifically designed to work with each fiction and nonfiction text by offering crucial intervention for students who have problems learning to read. Each guide provides practical teacher support through:

Complete lesson plans — one for each title
Step-by-step instruction for teaching important language skills
An early intervention instructional model

Records of Reading Behavior blackline masters

Foundations Records of Reading Behavior blackline masters support your assessment of early reading skills. When completed, each Record of Reading Behavior presents a comprehensive assessment of reading ability. This tool helps teachers move students to successful reading independence. To support assessment, this resource:

Contains text from all 237 student books
Assists the teacher in student assessment and placement
Helps teachers make informed judgments about the appropriate reading level for each child

Guided Reading Kits

Each complete guided reading kit contains: