Open Court Reading - Foundational Skills Kits

Grades K-3

Laying Strong Foundations for Strong Readers

Foundational skills are critical as they lay the groundwork for academic and overall future success. Foundational Skills Kits provide research-based instruction and classroom-tested tools to help every student master these essential skills.

  • Grade K prepares the foundation for reading with phonemic awareness, concepts of print, and the alphabetic principle.
  • Grade 1 builds upon this foundation with sound-spelling correspondences and spelling strategy development.
  • Grades 2 and 3 reinforce and expand upon fluency, decoding and encoding skills for automatic recognition.

Student Resources
Dig into our student resources for a variety of practical and useful samples of the Open Court Reading program.

KIT RESOURCES

  • Individual Alphabet Sound Cards - 4 sets
  • High-Frequency Flash Cards
  • Alphabet Letter Cards - uppercase/lowercase
  • English Learner Photo Cards
  • Alphabet Wall Cards (Grade K only)
  • Small-Group Alphabet Sound Cards (Grade K only)
  • Pocket Chart (Grade K only)
  • Pocket Chart Picture Cards (Grade K only)
  • Pocket Chart Word Cards (Grade K only)
  • Alphabet Little Book (Grade K only)
  • Pickled Peppers Little Book (Grade K only)
  • Alphabet Sound Stickers (Grade K only)
  • Pre-Decodable and Decodable Take-home BLM (Grades K & 1 only)
  • Magnetic Letters (Grades K & 1 only)
  • Individual Pocket Chart (Grades K & 1 only)
  • Lion Puppet (Grades K & 1 only)
  • Magnetic Dry Erase Board (Grades K & 1 only)
  • Letter Cubes (Grades K & 1 only)
  • Rhyme Stew Little Book (Grade 1 only)
  • Sound/Spelling Wall Cards (Grades 1-3 only)
  • Small-Group Sound/Spelling Cards (Grades 1-3 only)
  • Sound/Spelling Stickers (Grades 1-3 only)
  • Decodable Take-home BLM (Grades 3 & 4 only)
  • Word Cubes (Grades 3 & 4 only)

Alphabet Sound Cards & Sound/Spelling Cards

Grade K
The Alphabet Sound Cards are designed to teach students the sounds of the English language and their letter correspondences. There are 31 cards in the set, for the first 31 sounds your students will learn, including 21 consonants, 5 long vowels, and 5 short vowels. On the front of each card is a picture connected to the sound and the back of the card contains the letter. Each card is color coded: black letters are consonants; red letters are vowels; yellow backgrounds for long vowels; and green backgrounds for short vowels. The Alphabet Sound Cards come in three different sizes: Individual, Small-Group and Wall Cards. The digital Interactive Alphabet Sound Cards recite the Alphabet Sound Card Story and each picture illustrates a motion.

Grades 1 to 3
The Sound/Spelling cards are designed to give your students the key to unlock the power of our written language. The Sound/Spelling Cards include 44 cards in each set featuring the letter and a picture on one side and spelling patterns on the back. The Cards represent the 44 most common sounds of the English language. The Sound/Spelling Cards come in three different sizes: Individual, Small-Group and Wall Cards. The digital Interactive Sound/Spelling Cards recite the Sound/Spelling Card Story and each picture illustrates a motion.

Core Pre-Decodable, Pre-Decodable and Decodable Books

Grade K
Fourteen pre-decodable stories help students in kindergarten learn book and print concepts and provide reading practice in essential, high-frequency sight words. Twenty-eight decodable stories provide fluency practice through controlled, connected text.

 

Grades 1
Five Pre-Decodable stories help students review concepts of books and print, and provide practice reading essential high-frequency sight words. Controlled, connected text in 109 decodable stories provides students with fluency practice.

 

Grade 2
Fifty-five Core Decodable stories in seven books provide fluency practice through controlled, connected text.

 

Grade 3
Twenty-three Core Decodable stories available in four books provide fluency practice through controlled, connected text.

 

*All Core Pre-Decodable, Pre-Decodable, Decodable & Decodable Takehome Blackline Masters Books are available in print and digitally.

Teacher Resources
Take a closer look at the many tools and resources to help build literacy in your classroom.

Teacher’s Guides

The two-volume Teacher’s Guide contains instruction for the entire year. The research-based, explicit instruction, and modeling found in the Teacher’s Guide facilitates the teaching of foundational skills including: phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary and language development. Every lesson provides support for differentiated instruction. The Teacher’s Guides are available in print and digital formats.

Assessment

Grades K & 1
Assessments measure students’ learning in key instructional areas, such as phonemic and phonological awareness, and alphabetic knowledge understanding.

 

Grades 2 & 3
Assessments measure students’ learning in key instructional areas, such as phonics, fluency, and word analysis. These formative assessments help teachers plan differentiated instruction.

*The assessments, corresponding answer keys and Assessment Annotated Teacher Edition are available in Blackline Master and digital formats.

 

*The assessments, corresponding answer keys and Assessment Annotated Teacher Edition are available in Blackline Master and digital formats.

Skills Practice

Grades K & 1
The Skills Practice Annotated Teacher Edition/Blackline Master provides teachers with resources for student practice in alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and the alphabetic principle. This includes an answer key.

 

Grades 2 & 3
Skills Practice Annotated Teacher Edition/Blackline Master with answer key helps teachers facilitate student skill practice in phonics and word analysis.

*The Skills Practice Annotated Teacher & Skills Practice are available in print and digital formats.

*The Skills Practice Annotated Teacher & Skills Practice are available in print and digital formats.

Skills Teacher Resource Book

Grades K & 3
The Teacher Resource Book offers additional in-depth instruction to help teachers reach at-risk students and English learners using full in-program intervention that supports in-class content. Lesson-by-lesson instructional support for the core curriculum can be implemented during small-group time. The Teacher Resource Book is available in print or digital.

*The Skills Practice Annotated Teacher & Skills Practice are available in print and digital formats.

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