STUDENT LETTER BOOKS

An Integrated Approach to Letters and Phonics

Each student letter book contains a purposeful story told through connected text, providing students with the systematic letter and phonics patterns they need as they work toward reading comprehension.

Multicriteria Text

The student letter books tie learning together. Each story connects code-based foundational skills with meaning-based comprehension skills, making reading sessions purposeful and impactful.

• Includes a mix of target letter-sound words, decodable words, sight words, and story words

• Stories with characters, settings, and plots that drive students’ thoughts and discussions

• Shared reading opportunities to get children to attend to print, letters, words, and ideas

Social-Emotional Learning

SEL is woven throughout every lesson and letter story. As students read, think, talk, and write or draw, they explore five key SEL habits grounded in the CASEL core competencies:

• Problem Solving

• Persistence

• Cooperation

• Kindness

• Understanding Feelings

Cultural Diversity

Stories feature contemporary settings and cultures from all around the world. Students will encounter characters and situations in which they can see themselves, while also experiencing other cultures at the same time.

• Features characters in common situations children experience

• Broadens children’s understanding of diverse cultures and topics

• Includes a mix of target letter-sound words, decodable words, sight words, and story words

Introduction

Letter books begin by identifying a target letter, its capital and lowercase forms, and the featured exemplar word.

Reflection

Story-based prompts promote letter learning, meaning making, and figuring out feelings.

Capital O, lowercase o See it. Say it. Write it, too.

 know it’s somethin yo can do!

Listen: octops. Yor trn!

Other words have that same beinnin sond. Oz is one of them.

Oz is a name that starts with O As we read, listen for more Oo words.

Now let’s read the story: Oz and the Octops

To view a complete student reader, go to: LWTears.com/AtoZ

octops

Story

Letter learning comes to life through the words in each fun story.

Each page reinforces print concepts with a top-to-bottom and left-to-right orientation.

Letter Learnin

1. Which word beins with capital H?

2. Cont how many words bein with lowercase h

3. Look at the pictres. Find other thins that have the same beinnin sond as hammer