Fundations Support Materials
What is Fundations?
Fundations instruction is visible and explicit. Unlike many programs where students work independently on phonics worksheets, all Fundations instruction is interactive. The multisensory lesson activities provide learning through various modalities and help to maintain the students’ focus. Students find learning fun! This program is used in grades K-2, Title I, and Special Education Classrooms at FES.
Activities:
•Letter formation using sky writing, dry erase boards, notebooks, and finger tracing .
•Fluency drills for sounds, real words, nonsense words, trick words, phrases and stories allow students to connect the word with its meaning, and develop automaticity, phrasing, and expression.
•Blending and segmenting sounds with the Wilson finger tapping technique.
•Sound drill with Echo the Owl and Large or Standard Sound Cards.
•Echo/Find Letters and Words using the Magnetic Letter Board and phoneme tiles.
•Dictation for sounds, words, and sentences using the dry erase board and composition books.
•Word Play and Make it Fun are variable lesson activities using the manipulatives to reinforce unit concepts or review previously taught concepts.
•Storytime involves reading and writing activities, including using stories with controlled text.
Trick Word Lists used in Fundations
These are words that don't follow the rules and you just need to know them by heart!
Helpful Parent Videos for Fundations
See Wilson Visual Supports below:
Alphabet with short vowels
Digraphs
Glued or welded sounds
Marking Up