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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.

Trick words for grade 2


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


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