• Wilson Fundations

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    Wilson Fundations for K-3 is a phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling program for the general education classroom. Fundations is based upon the Wilson Reading System principles and serves as a prevention program to help reduce reading and spelling failure.
    Principles of Instruction: 
     
    Explicit Instruction:
    Instruction is visible and interactive.
    Provides learning through various modalities.
     
    Systematic Instruction:
    Sequential and cumulative
    Previously taught skills are revisited and relate to new concepts.
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    Motor-Memory Learning:
    Moving and manipulating their arms, fingers, or provided materials.
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    Repetition:
    The information is presented in different ways and with varying activities
     
    Implementing Fundations:
    • lWhole Class
    • lSmall group- “Double Dose”
    • l1 to 1
    • l30 minute lessons
    Materials Used:
    • lMagnet boards
    • lWriting boards
    • lGel pads
    • lPosters
    • lLarge picture sound cards
    • lSmall sound cards
    • lTrick word cards
    • lStudent Notebooks
    • lProgress Monitoring Assessments
    Kindergarten:
    • Phonological Awareness (syllable, word and sound awareness)
    • lSound Mastery
    • lPhonics (blending sounds together)  /m/-/a/-/t/   
    • lBasic Trick words (aka: sight words)
    • lWriting- letter formation

    Grades 1-3:

    • Phonics
    • New Vocabulary (words of the day)
    • Irregular Words (trick words)
    • Multisyllabic Words (chunking words)
    • Fluency (speed and expression)
    • Suffixes
    Spelling Program:
    • lSequential and cumulative
    • lSpelling rules or exceptions relate to the topics taught in class