For the Week of November 2

Over the past number of weeks I have been highlighting some of the interventions we use at Prairieview in our RTI program. This week I am going to describe Fundations which is a phonics, sight word, vocabulary and spelling program. Fundations uses letter cards to help the teacher build words on the board. It uses magnetic tile boards for the students to build words on their desks. Small dry erase boards are used for student practice. Each student also has a student notebook and a composition book to help keep track of the rules he/she has learned. Fundations is a very systematic approach to learning the English spelling and reading rules. It shows students how suffixes change words and explains how and when the base words changes as suffixes are added. It teaches the different kinds of syllables and how to break longer words into syllables. Fundations is a research based method that we find helpful for many students.