Family Academic Engagement Resources

The first step on the journey to becoming a proficient reader is phonetic awareness, and that is why we help your children by including a lip formation chart which demonstrates how their lips should be formed when making letter sounds. Aside from being able to sing the alphabet song, we make sure that your children can recognize letters in lowercase and uppercase format, associate letters with sounds, and recognize letter sounds  at the beginning, middle, and end of words. Your child will enjoy all the writing, phonics, phonemic, and letter knowledge activities included. Remember to journal the growth your child will experience.

Vowel Start is designed to work alongside the set of 10 phonics/phonemic awareness posters and flashcards. The activities are designed to help your child understand that vowels represent two distinct sounds. From that point they will practice creating Consonant-Vowel-Consanant words (CVC), and then progress onto creating CVCC and CCVC Words. As they move from letters to words, and then words to sentences, they will further understand the importance of word parts and units, and will practice decoding words based on their know;edge of digraphs, diphthongs, vowel pairs, and R-controlled vowels.

Comprehsion and writing is largely dependent on children understanding how groups of words convey meaning. Understanding Words focuses on helping parents teach their children the rigors of grammar and vocabulary.  Children will be able to define, apply, and analyze parts of speech based on a deepening awareness of grammatical elements such as nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepsositions, conjunctions, and subject-verb agreenments. Parents will enjoy being able to  help their children apply  grammar and vocabulary to all writing genres, 

Parents use Comprehension WorkShop to develop awareness of the various reading genres and strategies that can help their children understand literary elements and text structures. Parents learn how to use questioning of both fiction and nofiction texts, to inspire a deeper understanding of the various texts their children read.

Parents use Comprehension Practice in conjunction with Comprehension Workshop. This book is a collection of 8 riveting stories with a focus on literary elements. At the end of each story, there are language activities, comprehension questions, and language frames for MLL. As parents immerse children in these activities, they find that  their  questiong skills improve, and  students' comprehension skills increase.

Use this book in conjunction with the posters/charts. Each of the six L-blends [bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, & sl] is highlighted in its own story and  used as a noun, verb, or adjective. Because blends should not be taught in isolation, each story ends with associated language activities, comprehension questions, language frames for multilingual learners, and an assortment of games designed to reinforce consonant cluster identification and usage. 

Use R-blends in conjunction with the companion posters/charts. Each of the seven R-blends [br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, & tr] is highlighted in its own story and  used as a noun, verb, or adjective. IBecause blends should not be taught in isolation, each story ends with associated language activities, comprehension questions, language frames for multilingual learners, and an assortment of games designed to reinforce consonant cluster identification and usage. 

Use S-blends in conjunction with the companion posters/charts. Each of the seven S-blends [Sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, & sw] is highlighted in its own story and  used as a noun, verb, or adjective. IBecause blends should not be taught in isolation, each story ends with associated language activities, comprehension questions, language frames for multilingual learners, and an assortment of games designed to reinforce consonant cluster identification and usage.

• Reading Foundation Parent Guide
• Vowel Start
• Understanding Words: Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing
• Comprehension Workshop
• Comprehension Practice
• L-Blends with Comprehension
• R-Blends with Comprehension
• S-Blends with Comprehension
•  Parents as Tutors™ companion charts and flash cards (See below)