Kindergarten Report Overview

The Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits for Kindergarten meet the expectations for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials include a defined sequence and explicit instruction for all 26 uppercase and lowercase letters and includes both whole group and independent activities for students to identify, locate and name all 26 letters. Materials include explicit instructional support for general concepts of print and provide a variety of physical books for student practice. Materials include explicit instruction and student practice in phonological awareness and include multimodal and multisensory approaches for student practice. Materials contain explicit instructions for systematic and repeated teacher modeling of all grade-level phonics standards. The materials include explicit, systematic teacher-level instruction of modeling that demonstrates the use of phonics to encode sounds to letters in writing tasks; however, on some Student Skills Pages, students write the word that completes each sentence, but the students choose from a set of words and are not encoding the word on their own. Materials provide frequent opportunities for students to read high-frequency words in context; however, there is very limited practice, if any, for writing high-frequency words in context. Materials include explicit instruction of word analysis strategies and some opportunities for explicit instruction and practice of word solving strategies to decode unfamiliar words. Materials provide systematic and explicit instruction and practice in fluency by focusing on accuracy and automaticity in decoding of decodable books.