Fundations Parent Night

Fundations Provides Scientifically Based Instruction Reading is taught using key principles of instruction Explicit: Learning through modeling and doing Systematic: sequential and cumulative Motor Memory Learning Repetition: Multiple opportunities to practice Feedback is provided

Importance of Multisensory Teaching “Using multisensory experienced activate more circuitry during language learning and produce multiple representations in working memory that improve the explicitness, completeness, and durability of what is stored in long term memory.” Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Judith Birsh

Letter-Keyword-Sounds Drill Sounds

What is Tapping? cat shed block

What is Skywriting? Fundations Writing Grid Sky Line________________ Plane Line------------------------ Grass Line________________ Worm Line________________

What are Trick Words?

Echo Find Letters Sounds Words

What about spelling tests? Written Composition What is Dictation? What about spelling tests? Written Composition

Spelling “Spelling is intimately related to reading and to the relation of letters to sounds. Effective spelling instruction is more than rote memorization of word lists. Spelling (going from sound to letter) strongly reinforces reading (going from letter to sound), and its instruction should be linked to a child’s reading lesson.” Dr. Sally Shaywitz

Building Fluency Scooping Story Time Building Fluency Scooping

Word of the Day Word Talk Vocabulary Building Word of the Day Word Talk

Homework Home Support Packet Letter to the Family Unit Concepts Taught Suggested Activities Homework Guide Trick Words