Wilson Fundations

The following Fundations links were taken from the Springhurst Elementary School’s website in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Fundations Sound Cards ~ Chant:

• Letter name
• Picture name
• Letter sound

for example, “a apple /a/”

Fundations Posters

Letters

MORE Letter Cards/Sounds for Grades K through 2

*alphabet squares.pdf

* Fundations flashcards for practicing sound drills:
student sound cards.pdf

* Printable letter formation practice sheets:
letter formation practice.pdf

* Six syllable types review:
SE_6SyllableTypes (1).pdf

* Explanation of Rules for Marking Up Words
Marking up words .pdf

Letter-Keyword-Sound Drill and Letter Formation Practice

Digraphs – Video  

Vowel Teams

Vowel Teams Covered in Grade 3

Important notes from the Massachusetts Dyslexia Guidelines, p. 45.

• Students who struggle to learn the alphabetic principle (the connection between letters and sounds) and subsequent phonics skills require systematic instruction in sound-symbol correspondences for reading and writing.
• Students taught through explicit phonics methods score six to seven standard score points higher on measures of single-word reading than those taught incidentally.
• Phonics not only improves word reading but also has excellent benefits for comprehension.
• Introducing the letters whose names contain the initial sound (b, d, j, k,
  etc.), is more effective than letters whose sounds are in the last position in the name (f, l, m, r, etc.).
• Using letters with embedded picture mnemonics or drawings of letters
  embedded in a picture of something containing that sound has facilitated more efficient sound-symbol knowledge than the letter alone. In Fundations, the students associate each sound with a picture. This is very effective.
• Regardless of the program, the most effective phonics interventions concurrently address phonemic awareness to the level of advanced skills and offer many opportunities to apply knowledge in controlled and uncontrolled connected text.

How Fundations Teaches Letter Formation

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Edited on 03/14/2024