Providing a strong foundation for early literacy development. The PreKindergarten Sonidos Program teaches students the sounds of the letters by immersing them in a variety of phonemic awareness activities and to provide practice with basic blending in order to prepare them for reading in kindergarten.
Engaging and Age Appropriate This program teaches individual sounds through a combination of whole language, phonics-based strategies that are developmentally appropriate and fun for young children. It includes a variety of activities such as stories, rhymes, riddles, cheers, and games designed to develop and foster phonemic awareness.
Multisensory Learning This program addresses a variety of learning styles by incorporating a multisensory approach (audio, verbal, tactile and kinesthetic) into the instructional content. It promotes parental involvement throughout the program. There are a variety of games and activities, puzzles and other tactile components.
Streamlined Curriculum for struggling readers 2nd grade and upEstrellitas Fugaces is based on Estrellita's decoding methodology and is streamlined for use with older students. This curriculum is intended for struggling readers in 2nd grade and above. These students have proficiency in phonics and phonemic awareness but need additional support in blending with sílabas, palabras, oraciones and cuentos to achieve grade level reading and strong skills sets with vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. This program is intended to be used in an intervention setting and is particularly beneficial if students have been exposed to Estrellita K-1 program in previous grades. Las Estrellitas Fugaces combines the K-1 program with Lunita to provide students with exposure to over 99% of all the sílabas blends in Spanish. Additionally, the curriculum will begin with a short review of all of the Sonidos Iniciales to ensure students have a strong foundation in phonics and phonemic awareness. For students who already know how to decode but who are lacking fluency, it will serve to reinforce decoding skills and build fluency, vocabulary and basic comprehension.
