Building Foundational Literacy: Beginnings Consonants and Short-Vowel a/a/ Teaching Guide & Student Activities

Features

Beginnings provides intensive step-by-step instruction and extensive practice and application.

• Includes informal assessments for letter knowledge, beginning sounds, consonant letter sounds, and word reading.
• Provides specialized techniques for students who are have significant difficulty learning letter sounds. These include
  • Speech-to-Print Practice, which  only requires recognition of printed words spoken by the teacher. Because students are only required to recognize the printed form of aword spoken by the teacher, Speech-to-Print Practice is about as easy an  approach to phonics instruction as you can find. Presents 27 speech-to-print exercises.
  •  *Adapted Tracing.  Combines the best features of Orton-Gillingham and the Fernald tracing approach. Adapted Tracing fosters attention and memory and  recommended when all other approaches have failed.

• Features a science-based introduction of irregularly spelled words. Printed words, even those irregularly spelled, such as are and the, are learned by making connections between letters and sounds.
• Beginnings can be used as a main or intervention program or as a supplement to provide added practice and application.