First Steps Literacy Kit
In First Steps, your students will have fun with Paws, the Spelling Cheetah. The program features 30 minute lessons filled with games and movement as beginning readers identify, blend, segment and manipulate sounds, understand the alphabetic principle before learning sight words, print lowercase and uppercase letters, fluently read one-syllable, short vowel words in text, consistently apply sound-symbol associations for consonants, consonant digraphs and short vowels, develop Concepts of Print, retell a story with the basic narrative elements, grow confidence as readers and writers, and participate in guiding reading groups using CR Success Readers.
The Literacy Kit Includes:
First Steps Teacher’s Manual
USB Drive with Black Line Masters and Home Run Handwriting digital files
First Steps Assessment Flipbook
Alphabet Wall Cards (31)
Sound Cards (33),
First Steps Posters: Color Chart, Gesture Chart, Vowels are Special!, Handwriting Rap, b and d Poster
Card Sets: Paws Card, Photo Cards (74), Language Ladder Photo Cards (20), TRICKy Word Cards (42), Hi-5 with Paws (27) with accordion file for storage
Language Ladder Word Cards and 4 Mats
First Steps Anchor Charts (3) and Comprehension Maps (5)
First Steps Teacher Magnetic Letterset (display size)
Cheetah Puppet
For classroom implementation, we recommend that each student have a magnetic folder. The magnetic folders and books are sold separately below.
The teacher will need a Classroom Guided Reading Set of the Small Steps series and other book sets.