Systematically teach foundational skills with 116 lessons
The research is clear. Systematic, explicit, and cumulative phonics instruction is the most effective way to teach children how to read words. The science of how children learn to read may be complicated but implementing it in the classroom doesn’t have to be.
Four Steps, One Framework
Language Foundations, Short Reads Decodables, and Read to Know Text Sets are each built on an easy-to-use framework that breaks systematic instruction down into four simple steps: Teach, Practise, Apply, Assess.
Each stand-alone resource focuses on one part of the process. Created in partnership with Wiley Blevins, Language Foundations offers an engaging, easy-to-follow systematic, explicit approach to phonics.
Teaching Phonics in Action
Teach
Teachers use 10–20-minute lessons to provide code-focused instruction for the whole class or in small groups.
Practise
Students practise the phonics skills they just learned with alphabet charts, manipulatives, articulation videos, and hundreds of printable and digital activities.
Apply
Students apply phonics skills through activity pages, printable centres, and extension activities.
Assess
This section includes a comprehensive phonemic awareness and phonics survey, as well as frequent quick-checks for formative and summative assessment.
What comes in each kit?
Kindergarten Kit
- Phonics From A to Z by Wiley Blevins (4th Edition)
- Kindergarten Program Guide
- 27 Alphabet Lesson Cards
- Articulation Cards
- Alphabet Cards
- Letter-Sounds Flash Cards
Digital Support:
- Articulation videos
- Decodable Storybooks (including printable version)
- Assessments
- Practice and Centre Activities
- Letter chants
Grade 1 Kit
- Phonics From A to Z by Wiley Blevins (4th Edition)
- 27 Alphabet Lesson Cards
- 34 Phonics Lesson Cards
- 16 Word Study Lesson Cards
- 12 Vocabulary Development Lesson Cards
- 22 Language Convention Lesson Cards
- Grade 1 Program Guide
- Articulation Cards
- Alphabet Cards
- Letter-Sounds Flash Cards
- Gameboard Cards
Digital Support:
- Over 300 Student Activity Pages, which include Assessment, Practice, and Centre activities
- Digital Storybook or Text
- Decodable Storybooks
- Mentor Texts
- Articulation videos
- Letter chants
- Game Boards
Grade 2 Kit
- Phonics From A to Z by Wiley Blevins (4th Edition)
- 37 Phonics Lesson Cards
- 18 Word Study Lesson Cards
- 12 Vocabulary Development Lesson Cards
- 22 Language Conventions Lesson Cards
- Grade 2 Program Guide
- Articulation Cards
- Letter-Sounds Flash Cards
- Gameboard Cards
Digital Support:
- Articulation Videos
- Interactive Decodables Texts
- Assessments
- Practice Activities
- Centre Activities
- Game Boards
Grade 3 Kit
- Phonics From A to Z by Wiley Blevins (4th Edition)
- 37 Phonics Lesson Cards
- 20 Word Study Lesson Cards
- 14 Vocabulary Development Lesson Cards
- 19 Language Conventions
- Grade 3 Program Guide
- Articulation Cards
- Letter-Sounds Flash Cards
- Gameboard Cards
Digital Support:
- Articulation Videos
- Interactive Decodables Texts
- Assessments
- Practice Activities
- Centre Activities
- Game Boards
Step-by-step lessons
BodyaStep-by-step lessons help teachers provide evidence-based, code-focused instruction in these areas:
Alphabet knowledge, phonics, and word study
Grapheme-phoneme correspondence
Sound-spelling
Blending, building, sorting, and spelling
High-frequency words
Reading fluency
Vocabulary development
Language conventions
Digital Sampler
View the Digital Sampler to see examples of each of the five Lesson Cards, Student Activity Pages, assessment opportunities, and manipulatives!
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Program Brochure
Browse our comprehensive Brochure to learn more about Language Foundations and how it can help you systematically teach foundational literacy and phonics.
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Alberta Curriculum Correlations
Learn how Language Foundations supports Foundational Language Curriculum in Alberta.
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Ontario Curriculum Correlations
Learn how Language Foundations supports Foundational Language Curriculum. Language Foundations is a 100% match to Ontario’s new Language Curriculum Appendices A & B!
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To ensure Language Foundations, Short Reads Decodables, and Read to Know Text Sets align with the latest literacy research, we’ve collaborated with some of the top minds in foundational language and phonics instruction.
Wiley Blevins
Author of Teaching Phonics, K–3. He is an author, educational consultant, and researcher who completed his graduate work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A former teacher, Blevins is a respected author of numerous phonics professional books, including Phonics From A to Z, and several phonics and reading programs from various publishers. He also wrote the phonics brief from the International Literacy Association, “Meeting the Challenges of Early Literacy Phonics Instruction.”
Dr. Anne Cunningham
Dr. Anne Cunningham is a professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a developmental scientist and educator known for her research on literacy and development across the lifespan in which she examines the cognitive and motivational processes underlying reading ability and the interplay of context, development, and literacy instruction.
Dr. Tanji Reed Marshall
Dr. Tanji Reed Marshall is a widely recognized expert on educational equity and educational leadership. She partners with states, school districts, schools, and education organizations to solve complex issues related to educational equity and to ensure that every child receives the excellent equitable education they deserve. Additionally, Dr. Reed Marshall is the Director of P12 Practise at the Education Trust, a non-profi t educational equity and advocacy think tank in Washington, DC.
Linda Gutlohn
Linda Gutlohn is a Science of Reading product consultant who is widely known for her expertise with phonics materials and the development of decodable texts. The editorial director and co-author of the CORE’s Teaching Reading Sourcebook, a highly rated textbook and comprehensive reference for research-based reading instruction, Gutlohn has over 10 years of experience as an elementary teacher and has served as a co-director of a professional development centre and as a language arts consultant.
Jennette MacKenzie, MEd
Jennette MacKenzie is an educator with experience as a classroom teacher, school librarian, district consultant, and principal/principal of curriculum and professional development for elementary and secondary schools. Jennette has taught Principal Qualifi cation Courses and numerous Additional Qualifi cation Courses for Brock University. She has done work for the provincial Ministry of Education and provincial teachers federation. Jennette is the senior author of several leading literacy series used by teachers and students across the country and frequently provides professional development for schools, school districts, and provinces. She is currently conducting research and developing literacy resources for Scholastic Education.