What's Included?

You'll have access to all training videos and content for one year. All printable lesson materials and resources are downloadable and are yours to keep.

  • Asynchronous online training

  • All foundational literacy skills: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and sentence level writing

  • Presentation slides for every lesson that can be used with Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides

  • A teacher's manual with lesson plans for each lesson

  • Printable student activity pages

  • Assessment tools and progress checks

  • Student text

  • Note: The second grade consonant lessons will be available November 2024.

See Samples

Click below to see sample lesson materials.

Sample Lessons

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to Sound Start Literacy!

    • Welcome!
  • 2

    Chapter 1: Introduction to Sound Start Literacy

    • The Reading Science

    • Program Materials

    • Check for Understanding

    • PDF of Introduction to Sound Start Literacy
  • 3

    Chapter 2: Instructional Principles

    • Intstructional Principles

    • Check for Understanding

    • PDF of Instructional Principles
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Instructional Strategies

    • Instructional Strategies

    • Check for Understanding

    • PDF of Instructional Strategies
  • 5

    Chapter 4: Assessment and Small Group Instruction

    • Assessment

    • Progress Checks

    • DIBELS 8

    • Small Group Instruction

    • Older and Advanced Students

    • Check for Understanding
  • 6

    Chapter 5: Basic Code Procedures and Demonstrations

    • Video 1 Auditory Connection and Word Building

    • Video 2 Sound Swap

    • Video 3 Handwriting and Listening Game

    • Video 4 Mixed Mapping

    • Video 5 Sentence Reading and Oddball Words

    • Video 6 Get Ready to Read, Reading Text, Think and Write

    • Video 7 Dictation

    • Video 8 ABC

    • Video 9 Word Ladders
  • 7

    Chapter 6: Advanced Code Procedures and Demonstrations

    • 1 Introduction

    • 2 Word Sorting

    • 3 Reading Multisyllabic Words

    • 4 Spelling Multisyllabic Words

    • 5 Making Meaning - Morphology

    • 6 Homophones

    • 7 Reading Text

    • 8 Word Ladders

    • 9 Progress Checks
  • 8

    Chapter 7: Core Lesson Materials

    • Teacher's Manual

    • Student Printable Activity Pages

    • Lesson Slides
  • 9

    Chapter 8: Additional Resources

    • K-3 Small Group Instructional Materials

    • 2nd Grade Sound Wall Cards

    • Writing Mat, Templates, and Tiles

    • Additional Sound Swap and Word Ladder Lists

    • Themed Board Games

    • Vocabulary Investigator Template

    • Home-School Connection