From Sounds to Spelling
2022

From Sounds to Spelling

Publisher
Learning at the Primary Pond
Subject
ELA
Grades
K-2
Report Release
06/11/2024
Review Tool Version
v2.0
Format
Supplemental: Foundational Skills Only

EdReports reviews of foundational skills supplements determine if a program meets, partially meets, or does not meet expectations for alignment to research-based practices and college and career ready standards. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Alignment (Gateway 1)
Partially Meets Expectations

Materials must meet expectations for standards alignment in order to be reviewed for usability. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Usability (Gateway 2)
NE = Not Eligible. Product did not meet the threshold for review.
Not Eligible
Key areas of interest

This score is the sum of all points available for all foundational skills components across all grades covered in the program.

The maximum available points depends on the review tool used and the number of grades covered.

Foundational Skills
129/198

This score represents an average across grade levels reviewed for: integrated reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language, and promotion of mastery of grade-level standards by the end of the year.

Building Knowledge
NC = Not Claimed. The publisher does not claim that this component is addressed in the materials.
NC
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Report Overview

Summary of Alignment & Usability: From Sounds to Spelling | ELA

ELA K-2

The From Sounds to Spelling materials partially meet the expectations for alignment to research-based practices and standards for foundational skills instruction.

The materials include systematic and explicit instruction in letter names, their corresponding sounds, and letter formation. The materials include a scope and sequence delineating the order in which phonological and phonemic awareness skills should be taught. The materials include limited explicit instruction in phonemic awareness with repeated teacher modeling and minimal guidance for corrective feedback in phonemic awareness.

The materials do not contain elements of instruction that are based on the three-cueing system. The materials include systematic and explicit phonics instruction. The materials include a phonics scope and sequence with common phonics generalizations and high-utility patterns. The lessons include explicit instruction, modeling, practice, and repetition. The materials include opportunities to practice decoding and encoding words with common and newly taught sound and spelling patterns. The materials include decodable texts that align with the weekly phonics skill. The materials include assessment opportunities for phonics that occur during the Placement Test at the beginning and end of the year, as well as the End-of-Unit Assessments.

Students learn new high-frequency words each week with explicit instruction and modeling; however, materials do not consistently include teacher modeling of the spelling of high-frequency words that includes connecting the phonemes to the graphemes. Throughout the materials, there are opportunities for students to practice and gain decoding and encoding automaticity of high-frequency words.

The materials do not include explicit, systematic, evidence-based instruction in oral reading fluency.  The materials do not contain assessment opportunities for fluency.

Kindergarten
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EdReports reviews of foundational skills supplements determine if a program meets, partially meets, or does not meet expectations for alignment to research-based practices and college and career ready standards. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Alignment (Gateway 1)
Partially Meets Expectations

Materials must meet expectations for standards alignment in order to be reviewed for usability. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Usability (Gateway 2)
Not Rated

EdReports reviews of foundational skills supplements determine if a program meets, partially meets, or does not meet expectations for alignment to research-based practices and college and career ready standards. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Alignment (Gateway 1)
Partially Meets Expectations

Materials must meet expectations for standards alignment in order to be reviewed for usability. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Usability (Gateway 2)
Not Rated

EdReports reviews of foundational skills supplements determine if a program meets, partially meets, or does not meet expectations for alignment to research-based practices and college and career ready standards. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Alignment (Gateway 1)
Partially Meets Expectations

Materials must meet expectations for standards alignment in order to be reviewed for usability. This rating encompasses all grades covered in the program.

Usability (Gateway 2)
Not Rated