Wilson Fundations
A playful, structured phonics foundation for kindergarten through third grade.
Fundations is a multisensory approach that teaches K–3 students letters, sounds, handwriting, and spelling in a sequence. The materials are hands-on and physical, using sight, sound, and touch to help young children learn.
Young children who are showing early signs that reading isn't coming easily, or whose kindergarten and first-grade classrooms are moving faster than their letter-sound knowledge.
Sky-line, plane-line, grass-line, worm-line: the visual guidelines Fundations uses to teach where each letter sits on the page, with letters traced in the air before a pencil is introduced. Sound drills with picture cards, tapping out words on fingers, a dry-erase board that gets erased and redone. It feels like a game, but every step is carefully sequenced.
“The kindest thing you can give an emerging reader is early structure, before struggle has a chance to become identity.”