Features of the curriculum:

  • It is a foundational, core “pre-phonics” curriculum that is: Comprised of 12 online modules with a total of 110 sequenced games and activities to develop all aspects of phonological awareness from listening to beginning reading.

  • Includes a 2-minute video demonstrating how to teach each lesson.

  • Includes all printables and downloadable scripts needed for each lesson and gives suggestions as to how to reduce or increase the difficulty of each lesson. Free to all users everywhere---school districts, schools, teachers, tutors, parents.

  • Provides scaffolding in the early lessons of each module to help ensure student understanding and success.

  • Contains a pacing guide and links for on-going assessments for phonological awareness skills mastery.

  • Appropriate for use with small group classroom instruction provided by teachers or paraprofessionals, Tier II instruction, individual intervention, tutoring, home schooling, and parental reinforcement of classroom instruction.

  • Uses direct, explicit, sequenced, systematic instructional methodology, which is especially helpful for ESL learners and novice or struggling readers.

  • Includes forms for teachers to send to parents to reinforce individual skills at home.

  • Fully aligned with the science of reading.

  • Built upon the findings of the National Reading Panel and the work of Marilyn Adams, Ingvar Lundbergh, Joseph Torgesen, the Florida Center for Reading Research, and the National Institute for Direct Instruction.

  • Developed through a grant from the Callaway Foundation, piloted in classes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and sponsored by the Georgia Preschool Association, which serves educators and parents of children from birth through age eight.