They feel safe with that. Yet there's enough variety so that it's not repetitious. Foundations of Reading is the course for students who are reading below fourth-grade level. The goal is to teach students the relationships between the most common letter combinations and sounds and to promote in them an understanding of the alphabetic principle. In-class instruction involves having students learn the rules that govern the recognition and spelling of 20 new words each week.
Computer games provide practice in spelling and word use.
Teachers supervise group reading of young adult novels to promote oral reading accuracy. Its primary purpose is to improve students' ability to recognize words and their meanings. Students receive word lists each week. Computer activities and games teach word usage. Novels are used for oral reading to enhance fluency.