Brainspring Foundational Skills Bundle
The Brainspring Foundational Skills Bundle combines our most trusted resources for teaching early literacy using a Structured Literacy approach grounded in the Science of Reading and Orton-Gillingham methodology. Designed for educators working with students in Pre-K through Grade 3, and Grades 4 and 5 for intervention. This comprehensive package delivers everything needed for effective, evidence-based foundational skills instruction.
Teachers receive professional learning and ready-to-use classroom tools that support every stage of reading development—from phonological awareness and phonics to handwriting, fluency, and connected-text practice.
Includes:
- Phonics First® Level I – Self-Paced Course and Materials
- Phonological Awareness: Essential Skills for All Readers – Self-Paced Workshop
- Pre-Kindergarten Orton-Gillingham Workshop
- Handwriting: Lessons for Print™ Classroom Package - Self-Paced Course and Materials
- Talewinds™ Decodable Library (Single Book Collection)
- Digital Phonics First® Fluency Practice Book
- Brainspring Sound Wall Poster Set
Together, these components form a cohesive, Structured Literacy system that empowers educators to deliver explicit, systematic instruction and build confident, fluent readers—one skill at a time.
Note: Participants will first be enrolled in Phonics First® Level I – Self-Paced Course beginning on your selected start date. This will lay the foundation for the rest of the learning. Once Phonics First is complete, you will receive access to Phonological Awareness: Essential Skills for All Readers – Self-Paced Workshop, Pre-Kindergarten Orton-Gillingham - Self-Paced Workshop, and the Handwriting: Lessons for Print™ Classroom Package - Self-Paced Course.
- Phonics First:
- This comprehensive and highly intensive course qualifies teachers to bring Orton-Gillingham multisensory instruction to their classrooms.
- Phonics First:
- Phonics First® transforms beginning, struggling, at-risk readers, and students with dyslexia and learning differences into skilled learners through our effective, fun, multisensory approach to reading and spelling.
- Phonics First:
- The Phonics First® Level I Self-Paced course covers all the multisensory training content of the in-person course in an interactive and flexible online format.
- Phonics First:
- Teachers will actively participate in learning modules and connect with Phonics First® Instructors as they learn how to effectively incorporate Orton-Gillingham instruction into their classrooms or small-groups.
- Pre-K Workshop:
- Brainspring’s Pre-Kindergarten Reading Readiness workshop introduces Orton-Gillingham principles of instruction to Pre-K teachers.
- Pre-K Workshop:
- The class emphasis is on setting the reading stage for Pre-K students through intensive phonological awareness instruction and sound-symbol correspondence introductions.
- Pre-K Workshop:
- Phonological awareness, one of the five pillars of reading instruction, is the underlying foundation for all reading development.
- Pre-K Workshop:
- Instruction builds awareness of the sounds of our language and systematically progresses towards the ability to easily manipulate these sounds.
- Pre-K Workshop:
- Pre-readers who develop strong phonological awareness are well-positioned to enter the print world with a higher chance to develop into skilled readers and spellers.
- Pre-K Workshop:
- Students who are print-ready benefit from our systematic, structured, multisensory Orton-Gillingham strategies to learn sound-symbol correspondences as they prepare for Kindergarten reading.
- PA Workshop:
- One of the five pillars of teaching children to read is phonological awareness. The foundation for all reading development starts with an awareness of and the ability to manipulate the sounds of our language.
- PA Workshop:
- Phonological awareness skills are held as the strongest predictor of success in learning to read.
- PA Workshop:
- Regardless of age, students with a weakness in phonological awareness will fall behind, experiencing poor spelling, inaccurate decoding of new words, mispronunciation of words and difficulty remembering or recalling new words.
- PA Workshop:
- Therefore, pre-readers, and beginning and struggling readers and spellers of all ages require purposeful, guided, sequential instruction in foundational phonological awareness skills
- PA Workshop:
- to make strong print connections tied to skilled reading and spelling. This self-paced, online workshop uses videos, on-screen animations, activities and quizzes to actively engage teachers in learning.
- Schedule:
- Phonics First Level I : Self Paced Course Courses run on the 1st & 15th of each month. Select the desired start date during checkout. Participants have 45 days to complete the course.
