High-Quality English Language Arts Curricula with Phonics, Decoding Practice, and Explicit Foundational Skills Instruction
The Best Materials for Literacy Development Success May Not Always Come in One Box
The secret to setting students up for success in reading and writing is finding the right “system” of instructional materials. The Science of Reading research is clear on the crucial role of systematic and explicit phonics instruction. Requiring educators to use a single solution for foundational skills and literacy instruction shortchanges students. But when you combine the high-quality, knowledge-building instructional materials from Arts & Letters™ or Wit & Wisdom® with Geodes® and a strong foundational phonics program, students are unstoppable.
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explicit phonics or foundational skills program?
Learn About Foundational Skills Programs Often Paired with Great Minds Instructional Materials
Great Minds® has identified the following high-quality foundational skills program as a strong companion to Arts & Letters, Wit & Wisdom, and Geodes for students in grades K–2.
Three Essential Components of Research-Based Literacy Instruction
Scarborough's rope provides the outline of how students can become skilled readers.
Great Minds ELA programs work together to support this evidence-based literacy instruction which stresses the importance of building knowledge as soon as students begin reading.
Language Comprehension
With Great Minds ELA programs, Arts & Letters and Wit & Wisdom, students engage with information-rich texts, building their content knowledge, expanding their vocabulary, and understanding of both written and spoken language conventions.
Foundational Skills Program
Word Recognition
With a foundational skills program, students build word recognition skills like phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition of familiar words.
Knowledge-Building Foundational Skills Practice
With Geodes, students practice and apply foundational reading skills to information rich books that systematically build knowledge about their world.
Skilled Reading
By the end of grade 2, students can read a variety of multisyllabic words, words with common prefixes and suffixes along with the first 200 high frequency words. In their independent reading, students demonstrate their comprehension of a broad range of texts by applying their decoding skills and knowledge in fluent reading.
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