Sunshine Starters, Levels 1-5
Our balanced literacy program for beginning readers
Sunshine Starters is a new literacy program that focuses on the five essential skill areas that all children need in order to develop into successful readers. Evidence-based findings have identified these key areas as:
Phonemic Awareness
– the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Phonics
– understanding the relationship between written letters (graphemes) and sounds.
Vocabulary
– developing an ever-increasing base of known words and their meaning.
Comprehension
– ability to understand and make meaning from text.
Fluency
– ability to read at pace with accuracy and expression.
