I have just published Beginnings, the last component of Building Foundational Literacy, an intervention program that includes provision for the most severely disabled readers. Building Foundational Literacy is a revision of Word Building, which has been used in classrooms and clinics for more than 25 years. Building Foundational Literacy consists of the following levels:
- Beginnings: Consonants, short a, and high-frequency and short-a words
- Level A: Short-vowel patterns and blends and high-frequency irregular and advanced regular words. Beginnings provides the skills needed for Level A of Building Foundational Literacy.
- Level B: Long-vowel patterns and blends and high-frequency irregular and advanced regular words
- Level C: R-vowel patterns and other-vowel patterns and blends and high-frequency irregular and advanced regular words
- Level D: Multisyllabic patterns