What's Included?

Your initial purchase includes the complete Sound Start Literacy program, including downloadable Teacher’s Manuals, student activity pages, assessments, games, and additional printable resources. All downloaded materials are yours to keep and use. Your purchase also includes one full year of digital access to the interactive Google Slides and online training. After your first year, you may choose to renew your digital access for $99 per year to continue using the interactive Google Slides and online training. Renewal is completely optional and may be canceled at any time. Even if you choose not to renew, all materials you have downloaded remain yours to keep and use. Both initial purchase and renewal options are available above.

  • 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

See Samples

Click below to see sample lesson materials.

Sample Lessons

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to Sound Start Literacy!

    • Welcome!

    • District Implementation Guide
  • 2

    Chapter 1: Introduction to Sound Start Literacy

    • The Reading Science

    • Program Materials

    • Check for Understanding

    • PDF of Introduction to Sound Start Literacy

    • PDF Program Materials
  • 3

    Chapter 2: Instructional Principles

    • Intstructional Principles

    • Check for Understanding

    • PDF of Instructional Principles
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Instructional Routines and Strategies

    • Instructional Strategies

    • Fluency Routines

    • What' Next?

    • Check for Understanding

    • PDF of Instructional Strategies
  • 5

    Chapter 4: Assessment and Small Group Instruction

    • Assessment

    • Progress Checks

    • DIBELS 8

    • Small Group Instruction

    • Small Group Planning Template

    • Older and Advanced Students

    • Check for Understanding
  • 6

    Chapter 5: 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 Dictation

    • 8 Reading Text

    • 9 Word Ladders

    • 10 Progress Checks

    • Standards Alignment
  • 7

    Chapter 6: Core Lesson Materials

    • Teacher's Manual

    • Student Printable Activity Pages

    • Lesson Slides

    • Talk Structure Lessons
  • 8

    Chapter 7: Additional Resources

    • Common Core Standards Alignment

    • 3rd Grade Sound Wall Cards

    • Writing Mat, Templates, and Tiles

    • Handwriting Instruction

    • K-3 Small Group Instructional Materials

    • Story Grammar Templates

    • Additional Word Sorts

    • High Frequency Words Tic-Tac-Toe

    • Themed Board Games

    • Additional Sound Swap and Word Ladder Lists

    • Home-School Connection

    • Decoding Rhyme Poster