The 12 Foundation Skills: Introduction
The 12 Foundation Skills: 1- Letter Recognition: Singing Solo to find a given letter (Sing the Song!)
The 12 Foundation Skills: 2-Letter Sound Recognition
The 12 Foundation Skills: 3-Writing the Letters: Stick and Ball
The 12 Foundation Skills: 4-Sight Word Recognition
The 12 Foundation Skills: 5-Word Part Recognition: Beginning, Middle, End
The 12 Foundation Skills: 6-Rhyming Words-Why Words Rhyme
The 12 Foundation Skills: 7-Word Meanings: Synonyms, Antonyms, Multi-Meaning Words
The 12 Foundation Skills: 8-Writing the Letters in Words
The 12 Foundation Skills: 9-Syllables
The 12 Foundation Skills: 10-Print Awareness
The 12 Foundation Skills: 11-Story Awareness
The 12 Foundation Skills: 12-Decoding Words with Phonetic Skills
Understanding Deliberate Practice
Deliberate Practice is what makes the skills work together.
You will practice a skill, then practice it again in new ways. Once you are “fluent” in one skill, you will do the same with the next skill in order. Then, you will practice them together, putting both the skills into the practice exercises. By assembling, disassembling, and reassembling in new ways, you rapidly integrate the skills together for fluency. So…practice takes information you learn and turns it into a skill…something you can actually do!
