Resources are designed to accompany at no extra charge the book Closing the Literacy Gap: Accelerating the Progress of Underperforming Students. (See also Updates for the latest information & additional techniques, assessments, & programs.) The resources provide teaching guides and student materials for the reserved edition of Building Foundational Literacy. Building Foundational Literacy Reserved Edition starts with emergent literacy skills and extends to instruction in multisyllabic words. The program has five levels.

• Beginnings: Phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, consonant letter sounds, short a, and high-frequency words. Beginnings prepares students for Level A.
• Level A: Short-vowel patterns and blends and high-frequency words
• Level B: Long-vowel patterns and blends and high-frequency words
• Level C: R-vowel patterns (farm, chair, her, door, dear, fire) and other-vowel patterns (saw, boy, wood, book, cow) and blends and high-frequency words
• Level D: Multisyllabic patterns

All components of the program are available in downloadable pdf form at no charge at buildingliteracy.org. Downloadable components include the following:

• Accelerating Foundational Literacy: Beginnings

• Accelerating Foundational Literacy Levels A, B, & C: Resource Manual

• Accelerating Foundational Literacy: Decodable Reading Selections Level A: Short Vowels

• Accelerating Foundational Literacy: Decodable Reading Selections: Level B: Long-Vowels

•Accelerating Foundational Literacy: Decodable Reading Selections: Level C: R-Vowels and Other-Vowels

• Rhymes and Songs for Accelerating Foundational Skills Levels A, B, & C

• Accelerating Foundational Literacy: 50 Lessons for Reading Multisyllabic Words