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Foundational Skills Standards Resources

Listed below are resources to assist with Foundational Skills Standards implementation.
All items are applicable for K-5 classrooms.

Foundational Skills Standards Kit

SIP Day Materials:
Looking for materials to use on School Improvement Days? Condensed materials are marked with a double asterisk **

Kit Introductory

By Standard Direction
**PowerPoint Presentations
- Presentation Slides (PPT Version with animation)
- Presentation Slides (PDF Version with notes)
- Foundational Skills Kit Facilitator's Guide for PowerPoint
PowerPoint Presentation Handouts
- **Appendix A for Foundational Skills Standards pages 17-22
- Glossary of terms
- **Grade Level Strategy Guides (Listed to the right)
- **What's the Difference? Phonemic Awareness vs. Phonological Awareness
- **Foundational Skills Defined Brochure

Other Suggested Resources

UnBoundEd ELA Guide Building Fluency:
Student Achievement Partners:
- Foundational Skills Guidance Document

Foundational Skills Research

Early Literacy Instruction by Elfrieda H. Hiebert & Taffy E. Raphael (updated in 2013)
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers Teacher's Guide (Video content not available)
Effective Vocabulary Instruction (Vocabulary Strategies to Support Fluency)
Understanding Fluency by Student Achievement Partners
Both And Literacy Instruction K-5: A Paradigm Shift by Liben & Liben
**Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
**Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade (Used in conjunction with above document)

**Materials Checklists can be found in the Literacy Framework

**Grade Level Strategy Guides

Sample Scope & Sequences and Curriculum
CKLA

EngageNY

EL Education

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