Kindergarten Report Overview

The Phonics, Spelling and Word Study Lessons Kindergarten materials reviewed  partially meet the criteria for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials provide limited instructional support for general concepts of print. Materials provide explicit instruction in phonological awareness and phonics through systematic modeling; however, materials include 26 phonological awareness lessons with limited frequent opportunities for students to practice phonological awareness activities. Materials do not include systematic opportunities for students to review previously learned phonics skills. Students have limited opportunities to decode phonetically regular words in a sentence and limited opportunities to build/manipulate/spell and encode grade-level phonics. Materials include limited systematic instruction of high-frequency words and limited opportunities to practice reading of high-frequency words to develop automaticity. Materials include seven generative lessons for high-frequency words.