145 lessons; over 145 reading/spelling concepts; 235 Sight Words (Red Words); more than 100 syllabication lessons that include over 700 multisyllable words for decoding practice.

This curriculum guide is used after completing RLAC’s intensive Phonics First™ Foundations Professional Development course. RLAC trained teachers use the Foundations curriculum to implement structured, step-by-step multisensory lessons to teach reading and spelling skills to beginning, at-risk, struggling, learning disabled, and ELL readers. Lessons emphasize a balance of reading and spelling for mastery of phonetic and non-phonetic words. In addition, lessons include structured syllabication study for decoding mastery of multisyllable words. Instructors who have completed other, in-depth multisensory courses will also benefit from the Foundations curriculum guide.

Foundations lessons are divided into four Learning Layers:

• Layer One - Basic short vowels, consonants and digraphs
• Layer One Plus - A "shortcut" for beginning instruction for older students --emphasizes short vowel mastery through one- and two-syllable words
• Layer Two - Blends, two-syllable words, plurals, simple spelling rules and familiar affixes
• Layer Three - Silent-e, vowel pairs, consonant-le endings, y as a vowel, r-controls, homonyms, contractions, more affixes
• Layer Four - Diphthong vowels, soft c and g, spelling rules, additional suffixes

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