Kindergarten Report Overview

Instructional materials include explicit instruction of all 26 letters. Materials also provide students with frequent opportunities to engage in practice identifying all 26 letters; however, materials contain no examples of students practicing letter identification using meaningful print. Throughout the program, students receive explicit instruction to print and practice the 26 letters. Materials include explicit and systematic instruction of print concepts beginning in Skills 1. Instructional materials include a variety of activities for phonological awareness, providing students with ample opportunities to engage with phonological awareness activities daily. Materials provide systematic and explicit instruction for students in phonological awareness throughout all lessons; however, opportunities are missed for students to receive explicit instruction in blending and segmenting onset and rime of words. Materials include consistent systematic and explicit instruction in phonics skills with repeated teacher modeling across all Skills in the Teacher Guide. The materials provide frequent opportunities for students to decode phonetically spelled words. Materials include explicit, systematic teacher level instruction and modeling to demonstrate the use of phonics to encode sounds to letters and words in writing tasks through dictation work. Instructional materials provide systematic and explicit instruction and practice in fluency by focusing on accuracy and automaticity in decoding.