1.  Framework for Effective Teaching Kindergarten Sounds and Letters (Teacher's Guide)

2.  Pickled Peppers: A Collections for Young Scholars Book (student text)

3.  Exploring Letters and Sounds (student consumable)

4.  Overview (Frameworks)

5.  Home/School Connections

6.  Learning Framework Cards

7.  Teacher Tool Cards:
 - Rhymes and Games
 - Songs
 - Classroom Support

8.  Wall Sound Cards

   Explain genres of text material: stories, songs, poems.

1.) Ask students to respond to the author individually by retelling the story, telling their favorite part, giving an opinion, or drawing a picture. Include their individual responses with the class letter to the authors. Provide students with many opportunities to practice skills taught during Shared Writing. Students can demonstrate their writing skills by writing in a journal on a regular basis.

2.  Teacher observation

1.) Individual responses are shared and assessed. Because students are at different levels of ability, final products range from illustrations to one or more sentences. 

Assess students using the following criteria: 

Content

Structure