Wilson Fundations® makes learning to read fun while laying down the groundwork for life-long literacy.Fundations provides children of varying learning abilities with a foundation for reading and spelling. It provides teachers with the skills and tools needed to present a structured, sequential, and cumulative phonics/spelling program using multisensory teaching techniques.
Fundations thoroughly teaches the Foundational Skills of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and significantly supports other CCSS standards in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language.
As a recognized leader in multisensory language programs, Wilson brings more than a decade of systematic and explicit instruction to the K-3 classroom. Wilson Fundations provides research-based materials and strategies essential to a comprehensive reading and writing program.
Program Highlights
Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes) – up to 6 sounds
Identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, digraph blends
Identify parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)
Identify all six syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, r-controlled, vowel digraph/diphthong, consonant-le
Read and spell words with: short vowels,
long vowels in vowel-consonant-e and open syllables,
r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)
Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)
Read and spell words with common suffixes (s, es, ed, ing, est, ish, able, ive, y, ful, ment, less, ness, ly, ty)
Read and spell words with common prefixes (un-, dis-, mis-, non-, trans-, pre-, pro-, re-, de-)
Read and spell phonetically regular one-, two- and three-syllable words
Read and spell targeted high-frequency,non-phonetic words
Divide multisyllabic words
Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate
Spell words with options for the grapheme representation for sounds with use of a spell checker or dictionary
Apply correct punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point)
Apply capitalization rules for beginning of sentences and names of people
Read controlled stories with fluency, expression and understanding
Read approximately 90 words per minute with fluency and understanding
Construct sentences using vocabulary words
Use synonyms, know some multiple meaning words, and apply dictionary skills
Retell facts from expository text
Locate facts and details in narrative and expository writing
Skim for information
Make judgements, predictions from given facts
© 2005, 2011 Wilson Language Training
Fundations thoroughly teaches the Foundational Skills of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and significantly supports other CCSS standards in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language.
As a recognized leader in multisensory language programs, Wilson brings more than a decade of systematic and explicit instruction to the K-3 classroom. Wilson Fundations provides research-based materials and strategies essential to a comprehensive reading and writing program.
Program Highlights
Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes) – up to 6 sounds
Identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, digraph blends
Identify parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)
Identify all six syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, r-controlled, vowel digraph/diphthong, consonant-le
Read and spell words with: short vowels,
long vowels in vowel-consonant-e and open syllables,
r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)
Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)
Read and spell words with common suffixes (s, es, ed, ing, est, ish, able, ive, y, ful, ment, less, ness, ly, ty)
Read and spell words with common prefixes (un-, dis-, mis-, non-, trans-, pre-, pro-, re-, de-)
Read and spell phonetically regular one-, two- and three-syllable words
Read and spell targeted high-frequency,non-phonetic words
Divide multisyllabic words
Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate
Spell words with options for the grapheme representation for sounds with use of a spell checker or dictionary
Apply correct punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point)
Apply capitalization rules for beginning of sentences and names of people
Read controlled stories with fluency, expression and understanding
Read approximately 90 words per minute with fluency and understanding
Construct sentences using vocabulary words
Use synonyms, know some multiple meaning words, and apply dictionary skills
Retell facts from expository text
Locate facts and details in narrative and expository writing
Skim for information
Make judgements, predictions from given facts
© 2005, 2011 Wilson Language Training
