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Wilson Fundations: Level K

Level K of Fundations® will set a very strong foundation for reading and writing. 

 By the end of Level K, students will be able to: 

  • Recognize and produce rhyming words
  • Segment words in an oral sentence
  • Segment words into syllables
  • Segment and pronounce initial, medial and final phonemes in spoken CVC words
  • Manipulate phonemes with additions or substitutions in one-syllable words
  • Name all letters of the alphabet
  • Write all manuscript letters in lowercase and uppercase
  • Sequence letters of the alphabet
  • Fluently produce sounds of consonants (primary) and short vowels when given the letter
  • Fluently produce sounds for basic digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck)
  • Name and write corresponding letter(s) when given sounds for consonants, consonant digraphs, and short vowels
  • Distinguish long and short vowel sounds within words
  • Read and spell approximately 200 CVC words
  • Spell other words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships
  • Identify 75% of first 100 high frequency words, including 25-30 irregular (trick words) such as the, was, of
  • Identify and name correct punctuation at end of sentence
  • Capitalize words at beginning of sentences and names of people
  • Name the author and illustrator of a story and define their roles
  • Explain narrative story structure including character, setting and main events
  • Use a combination of drawing and dictating to narrate linked events to tell about a story in sequence
  • Re-tell key details of narrative and informational text, using pictures or prompts as a guide
  • Identify characters, settings and main events in a story, with pictures or other prompts
  • Describe what happened in a story when given a specific illustration
  • With prompts, compare and contrast the experiences of characters in two stories
  • Explain difference between narrative and informational text
  • Echo-read a passage with correct phrasing and expression
  • Identify and explain new meanings for familiar words and newly taught words
  • Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities
  • Level K Home School Connections
 
Wilson Fundations: Level 1

Level 1 of Fundations® reinforces the basic skills that were learned in Kindergarten and progresses further into the study of word structure. 

By the end of Level 1, students will be able to: 

  • Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes)–up to 5 sounds
  • Name sounds of primary consonants, consonant digraphs, and short and long vowels when given letters
  • Name and write corresponding letter(s) when given sounds for consonants, consonant digraphs, and short and long vowels
  • Print all uppercase and lowercase letters
  • Distinguish long and short vowel sounds
  • Name sounds for r-controlled vowels
  • Name sounds for vowel digraphs and vowel diphthongs
  • Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words
  • Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions
  • Read and spell the first 100 high frequency words, including irregular words (trick words)
  • Identify word structures such as blends, digraphs, basewords, suffixes, syllable types (closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables)
  • Read and spell CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, CVCe words
  • Read and spell compound words and other words with two syllables by breaking them into syllables
  • Read and spell words with -s, -es, -ed, -ing suffixes when added to non-changing basewords
  • Apply correct punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point)
  • Apply capitalization rules for beginning of sentences and names of people, places and dates
  • Explain major differences between fictional stories and informational text
  • Explain narrative story structure including characters, settings and main events
  • Retell key details of a fictional story and demonstrate understanding
  • Use illustrations and/or details in a story to describe its characters, settings, and events
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
  • Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text
  • Identify specific words in a story that tell or suggest details
  • Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text
  • Identify the main topic and retell key details of informational text
  • Identify and explain new meanings for familiar words and newly taught words
  • Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts
  • Construct complete sentences using vocabulary words
  • Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
  • Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking)
  • Sort words into categories to gain a sense of the concept the category represents
  • Define words by category and by one or more key attributes
  • Apply beginning dictionary skills
  • Identify real-life connections between words and their use
  • Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future
  • Read controlled stories with fluency, expression and understanding
  • Level 1 Home School Connections
 
Wilson Fundations: Level 2

Level 2 of Fundations® builds on the basic skills that were learned in Kindergarten and Level 1 and progresses further into the study of word structure. 

By the end of Level 2, students will be able to:

  • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills in decoding words
  • Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes)–up to six sounds
  • Identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, and digraph blends
  • Identify parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)
  • Identify all six syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, r-controlled, vowel digraph/diphthong, and consonant-le
  • Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words
  • Read and spell words with short vowels
  • Read and spell words with long vowels in vowel-consonant-e and open syllables
  • Read and spell words with r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
  • Read and spell words with vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)
  • Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)
  • Read and spell words with suffixes (-s, -es, -ed,-ing, -est, -ish, -able, -ive, -y, -ful, -ment, -less, -ness, -ly, -ty)
  • Read and spell words with common prefixes (un-, dis-, mis-, non-, trans-, pre-, pro-, re-, de-)
  • Read and spell phonetically regular one-, two- and three-syllable words
  • Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences
  • Read and spell the first 200 high frequency words including irregular words
  • Divide multisyllabic words
  • Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
  • Use synonyms
  • Know some multiple meaning words
  • Apply dictionary skills
  • Use correct writing position and pencil grip
  • Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate
  • Spell words with options for the grapheme representation for sounds with use of a spell checker or dictionary
  • Apply correct punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point)
  • Apply capitalization rules for beginning of sentences and names of people
  • Read controlled stories with fluency, expression and understanding
  • Read approximately 90 words per minute with fluency and understanding
  • Retell short narrative stories, recounting key ideas and details
  • Retell facts from informational text
  • Locate facts and details in narrative and informational writing
  • Skim for information
  • Make judgments, predictions from given facts
  • Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
  • Determine the meaning of a new word when a prefix is added to a known word
  • Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of a compound word
  • Identify real life connections between words and their use — answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions with narrative and informational texts
  • Answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions with narrative and informational text
  • Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges  
  • Determine the central message of a story
  • Identify the main topic/purpose of an informational text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs
  • Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe
  • Level 2 Home School Connections