“HELP Foundations was what I needed to make every student a successful reader.”
Penny Hughes Teacher, First Grade
HELP Foundations Learning to Read. Applying the science of reading to ensure every child is a successful reader!
- Easy to use MiniLessons
- Engaging award-winning texts and materials
- SIMPLE Assessments
- Supportive training and coaching
- Based on the science of literacy
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Theme 1
Spectacular Space!
Teach foundational skills in phonological awareness, phonics, reading fluency, spelling, writing, and vocabulary while you learn about the sun, moon and planets using award winning informational texts. Includes a teacher guide, 36 literacy lessons, student response booklet, and six trade books plus a free subscription K3Literacy.
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Theme 2
BodyWorks! The Human Body
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to learn about your feet, hands, heart and blood in these award winning informational texts.
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Theme 3
Amazing Animals
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to learn about animals in these award winning informational texts.
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Theme 4
Peculiar Plants!
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to learn about flowers, trees, and seeds in these award winning informational texts.
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Theme 5
Poetry & Songs
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to explore poetry and songs in the sea, on farms, in meadows, and in the wild!
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Theme 6
Global Adventures
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to go on global adventures with these characters.
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Theme 7
Families & Celebrations
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to learn about families and celebrations through the eyes of these characters.
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Theme 8
Favorite Authors
Set of 26 MiniLessons teaching digraphs, phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, spelling, and vocabulary. Apply your new foundational skills to explore your favorite authors in these award winning texts.
HELP Foundations Learning to Read
- Phonemic Awareness. Teach students to hear, identify, and manipulate 44 sounds (phonemes) using fun, memorable and motivating oral language games.
- Phonics. Deliver systematic and explicit phonics instruction to teach associations between sounds (phonemes) and the letters (graphemes) that can represent those sounds in written language.
- Vocabulary. Build knowledge of word recognition, meanings and relationships using proven strategies.
- Fluency. Use character-driven rhyming stories and informational texts to help students read with speed, accuracy, and expression. build fluency.
- Comprehension, Language, and Print Concepts: Increase language skills, general knowledge and understanding of how print works using supportive interaction and questioning strategies.
