Key Foundations

Learning to read and write is a complex process. Getting ready for literacy learning doesn't have to be.

If children start school with strong foundational skills, their learning journey will be easier and more successful. If they start school with gaps in their knowledge, it's our job to fill them fast.

Key Foundations makes it easy to engage young children and stimulate their curiosity and sense of achievement as they build the essential skills for learning to read and write.

Components include:

• Lesson Book - updated edition
  114 10-minute lessons plus assessment tools, teacher support materials, and downloadable resources to support letter recognition and letter formation using a variety of activities in developmentally appropriate way 
  Teacher support models to form each letter along with a helpful chant
  Students practice using large movements before attempting to write on paper

• Alphabet Bops
  Rhythmic, rhyming alphabet books that teach letter names and sounds
  Book 1: Hard c and g and the short vowel sounds
  Book 2: Soft c and g and the long vowel sounds

• Game Book
  16 oral language games to support vocabulary and background knowledge and the skills of describing, comparing, and categorizing
  29 phonological and phonemic games to develop skills with syllables, rhyming, blending, segmenting, intial sounds, final sounds, and vowel sounds
  The games use the Picture Cards, Cue Cards, and common classroom materials
  Simple instruction follow a consistent model of prepare, demonstrate, and play

• Picture Cards
  156 colorful cards for building vocabulary, oral language skills, and phonological awareness
  Additional activites are built in to the back of each card

• Cue Cards
  16 cards (8 for living things, 8 for non-living things) for bulding essential vocabulary and scoffolding language for asking and answering questions, as children develop the skills of describing, comparing, and categorizing

To support school readiness at home, the Game Book, Cue Cards, and Picture Cards can be purchased together as the Key Foundations Word and Sound Games.

Coming soon:

• At-Home Tote
  At-home totes to continue building the foundations for literacy success with 12 "take home" games (consumable)
  104 fun alphabet letter activities

Key Foundations makes sure that learning is fun, that developing language and phonological awareness is natural and cumulative, and that alphabet knowledge is learned easily and contextually.

- Professor John Hattie

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