LETTER LEARNING LESSONS

Letter learning lessons help readers identify letters, sounds, and words using pictures that allow them to explore the world around them.

• Explicitly teaches each letter’s name, sound, and form

• Develops grapheme-phoneme correspondences

• Incorporates letter formation from Handwriting Without Tears

Phonological And Phonemic Awareness

Help students recognize, segment, and blend syllables, onset-rime, and phonemes.

Introduce readers to follow words on a page: from top to bottom and left to right. Prompts also help students:

• Recognize words in a spoken sentence

• Recognize written words and represent spoken words

• Recognize capital and lowercase letters

Research-based scaffolds in each lesson help ground the instruction for multilingual speakers.

• Focus on the biggest blockers to language acquisition for the target letter

• Support transfer of primary language skills to English

• Build reading comprehension skills

Each lesson features two instructional paths—Emerging Readers and Developing Readers—allowing you to adapt instruction to meet all student needs