Kinder 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.
Kindergarten students identified as needing a small group setting in reading will work with the Wilson Fundations system.
Fundations Level K focuses on letter formation, print knowledge, alphabetic awareness, and phonological and phonemic awareness training. By the end of Level K students will be able to:
Kindergarten students identified as needing a small group setting in reading will work with the Wilson Fundations system.
Fundations Level K focuses on letter formation, print knowledge, alphabetic awareness, and phonological and phonemic awareness training. By the end of Level K students will be able to:
- Know alphabetic order and a-z letter/sound relationships (map letter to sound and sound to letter)
- Write manuscript letters in lower- and upper-case associated with sounds
- Understand concepts of print and beginning concepts of sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation
- Identify separate words in an oral sentence, segment words into syllables, and segment syllables into sounds (phonemes)
- Blend sounds in words containing up to three sounds using Wilson’s finger-tapping procedure
- Read and spell CVC words
- Decode nonsense words of up to three sounds
- Read 25/25 of the most common words and 75% of the first 50 words on both the Fry and American Heritage word frequency lists, including 27 high frequency (“trick”) words
- Increase vocabulary from hearing stories read aloud and classroom discussions
- Retell short narrative stories and echo-read passages with phrasing and expression