Kindergarten Report Overview

From Phonics to Reading Kindergarten materials provide instruction in all foundational skills standards. Materials include instruction around the organization of print concepts on Day 2 of all lessons throughout the text. The materials reviewed for Kindergarten meet the criteria for materials provide explicit instruction in phonological awareness through systematic modeling. The Teacher’s Edition for Level K provides daily activities for students to practice phonemic and phonological awareness skills. Instructional materials provide teachers with explicit examples, instructional routines, and systematic and repeated instruction for students to hear, say, encode, and read each newly taught grade-level phonics pattern located within the Instructional Guides. Materials provide frequent student practice applying and encoding phonics in the weekly dictation and writing about connected text routines; however, the teacher directions ask the teacher to have students complete the encoding tasks without further explanation or modeling. In From Phonics to Reading Level K, recurring instructional routines explicitly model and teach both reading and spelling of high-frequency words, primarily using the Read-Spell-Write routine. Materials include recurring instructional routines provide students with frequent practice both reading and writing high-frequency words in context. Materials provide explicit instruction in phoneme/grapheme recognition using the Word Study routines and when introducing long vowel patterns in the Blend It exercises.