These strategies help preschool and kindergarten students develop letter recognition, spatial awareness, and fine motor ...

This “writing to learn” approach need not wait for students to master foundational skills. In the K-2 grades especially, much content is learned through teacher read-alouds and conversation ...

The handwriting advantage extended beyond individual ... in letter–sound mapping and word recognition. These foundational skills are essential for reading fluency and academic success in later ...

Developing a novel approach to integrating foundational skills, comprehension and writing instruction within the context of authentic informational text reading to improve fourth- and fifth-grade ...

recently gave the Amherst School Committee an overview of the K-2 foundational skills program that aims to promote phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and writing.