1st Grade Report Overview

The Saxon Phonics and Spelling 1 materials do not meet the expectations for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials contain some explicit instruction of print concepts with limited student practice opportunities. Materials contain explicit instruction and practice of letter recognition, however, the letter formation materials are optional. Materials contain some explicit instruction and multimodal/multisensory practice phonological and phonemic awareness standards. Materials contain some explicit phonics instruction with limited teacher modeling of decoding. Materials contain some student practice of decoding words in isolation and in-context. Although the materials do provide students with opportunities to build/manipulate/spell and encode when students use Letter Tiles and worksheets, materials contain limited teacher-level instruction/modeling for building/manipulating/spelling and encoding of words. Materials include limited explicit instruction of high-frequency words and word analysis skills as the materials require students to view the high–frequency words and memorize the spellings. Materials contain opportunities for students to read and write high-frequency words in sentences. Materials contain limited explicit instruction and student practice in word solving strategies to decode unfamiliar words. Materials do not contain explicit fluency instruction and practice, however, optional materials address rate, accuracy, and expression.