Description

SRA Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits for grades K–3 provide decode and encode written language skills that are the basis for reading fluency, writing fluency and reading comprehension.
- Complements any core reading and language arts curriculum by providing additional foundational skills practice
- Supplements any leveled reading program by linking reading with essential foundational skills instruction to create a combined reading and phonics module
- Works as a stand-alone foundational skills program

SRA Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits help students learn these sound/symbol correspondences by:
- Providing explicit instruction in blending all the sounds into words
- Building fluency, a key to comprehension, through the use of decodable books
- Connecting spelling to phonics through dictation
- Transitioning at the end of grade 2 from phonics instruction to word analysis through the end of grade 3
- Developing oral language and vocabulary daily through a variety of activities


Instruction Overview by Grade Level:
- Kindergarten: Students develop phonemic awareness and learn about print concepts, sounds, letters and the alphabetic principle
- Grade 1: Students learn sound-spelling correspondences, practice blending and segmenting, and develop initial spelling strategies
- Grade 2: Students expand on fluency and continue to learn the mechanics of decoding and encoding
- Grade 3: Students analyze word structure to unlock meanings of words to read with both fluency and comprehension