Welcome to the Elevating Fluency Early Literacy Program
About the Program
Our program is dedicated to helping individuals of all ages improve their foundational literacy skills. Every component of the program is aligned with the most current science of reading research. The program bridges explicit and systematic phonics instruction to fluency, comprehension, and language development. Our team of experienced literacy coaches and reading interventionists have created differentiated lessons that meet each student at their reading level. This gives striving readers the confidence to embark on their literacy journey and increases student engagement.
Each lesson:
✔️ Builds background knowledge and oral language
✔️ Includes explicit phonics instruction
✔️ Contains three differentiated passages to meet individual needs
✔️ Has an illustration to help with the main idea and vocabulary
✔️ Word level fluency practice
✔️ Connected and engaging text with the target skill embedded
✔️ Student graph to measure progress during repeated readings
✔️ Comprehension questions
✔️ Encoding practice with Elkonin boxes (phoneme-grapheme mapping)
✔️Parent letter in Spanish and English to facilitate a home connection for additional practice
✔️ Highly engaging
Our K-1 program offers complete lessons with three differentiated decodable passages. As students gain proficiency with decodable text, they are ready for the First Grade Series, which provides non-controlled text that more closely mirrors the text they will see as they become lifelong readers. The most current reading research tells us that beginning readers need exposure to both types of text for optimal reading growth. The First Grade Series also provides three differentiated reading passages with targeted phonics skills but with non-controlled text. The length of the differentiated text in the First Grade Series has been created to provide an easy transition for the reader who has 'graduated' from the K-1 Series. It also offers longer texts to continue the development of reading fluency. Combining the two Elevating Fluency Series gives teachers six differentiated reading fluency lessons to meet each reader at their level.