- First Grade RTI
The Comprehensive Response to Intervention program (RTI) in the Eanes Independent School District is an integral part of the total educational program. Students are carefully monitored by homeroom teachers to assess their grade level performance in reading, and, when needed, students can be placed in special small group settings. The goal of this program is to identify and help students when they first encounter trouble.
First Grade students identified as needing a small group setting in reading will work with the Wilson Fundations system.
Fundations Level 1 reinforces the basic skills and progresses further into the study of word structure. Level I reinforces letter formation, print knowledge, alphabetic awareness, and phonological and phonemic awareness training. Students also learn to:
First Grade students identified as needing a small group setting in reading will work with the Wilson Fundations system.
Fundations Level 1 reinforces the basic skills and progresses further into the study of word structure. Level I reinforces letter formation, print knowledge, alphabetic awareness, and phonological and phonemic awareness training. Students also learn to:
- Solidify letter formation, if needed, in association with sounds
- Continue to improve handwriting
- Read and spell words of taught syllable types, compound words, and words with up to six sounds and two syllables
- Identify word structure, such as blends, digraphs, basewords, suffixes, and syllable types (closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables)
- Learn 107 trick words for both quick and automatic recognition and for spelling. Combined with their emerging phonetic knowledge, this provides mastery instruction for the first 100 words on the Fry list and 84% of the first 100 words on the American Heritage word frequency list.
- Decode nonsense words of up to six-sound syllables and two syllables
- Read controlled text stories (95-100% decodable) with fluency, expression, and understanding
- Apply beginning dictionary skills, correct punctuation, and capitalization
- Learn comprehension strategies including visualization and retelling with Wilson’s Comprehension S.O.S.™ method