Engage your students in fun, research-validated literacy activities. K-PALS is a 20-week program that helps kindergarten teachers ensure students are getting a solid foundation in early reading skills. This daily workbook includes teacher training lessons, daily direction cards, student game sheets, and 144 reproducibles.

The game-like K-PALS activities double the amount of practice students get with phonemic awareness and alphabetic knowledge without adding extra time to your current literacy program. Students are paired for activities, increasing early reading gains for all, even those at risk for reading failure. Each 20-minute session includes class and pair games that teach pronunciation, letter knowledge, and phonological and phonemic awareness.

This set also includes "Teacher-Directed PALS," a workbook that helps teachers use classroom aides or parent volunteers to help with beginning or struggling readers. The 57 Sounds and Words exercises consist of fast-paced activities like letter sounds, sight-word reading, hearing sounds, passage reading, and sounding out. The Story Sharing lesson uses pretend reading, reading aloud, and retelling to teach students how to strategically approach text.

The workbook was written by Patricia Mathes, Ph.D.; Joseph K. Torgesen, Ph.D.; and Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti, M.A.