Fundations®, Third Edition, K-3

Reimagined for Today’s Classrooms

Fundations, Third Edition, delivers the same proven routines, scope and sequence, and multimodal mastery-based approach – now enhanced with time-saving tools to simplify planning and instruction. Fundations equips teachers at every experience level to deliver expert Structured Literacy instruction that improves outcomes for all students.

Every Student. Every Teacher. Growing Together.

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Every Student

Fundations builds strong readers through comprehensive Structured Literacy that develops phonemic awareness, phonics, word study, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Young students in a classroom celebrating a math lesson with Fun Foundations K-3

Support multimodal learning with interactive tools, hands-on activities, manipulatives, student materials, and opportunities for movement.

Teacher helps a young girl in a wheelchair with Fundations K-3 reading.

Reach each student with age-appropriate, explicit instructional strategies and built-in multilingual learner (MLL) supports, as well as ideas for differentiation and corrective feedback.

Activate student learning with a multimodal, mastery-based approach that prevents gaps in understanding by going beyond memorization to build transferable skills, gain deep knowledge and metacognitive awareness.

Every Teacher

Maximize instructional time with 30-minute Tier 1 lessons that integrate decoding, encoding, and handwriting—eliminating the need for additional programs or resources.

Fundations Level 1 Unit 4, Week 1, Day 2 daily plan, teacher materials, and student activities.

Minimize prep time with the enhanced Teacher’s Manual that provides clear daily plans, embedded word banks, MLL supports, differentiation guidance, and corrective feedback to build teacher confidence and ensure instructional consistency.

Fundations K-3 Daily Plan: Drill sounds, introduce concepts, teacher materials, and learning objectives.

Teach with confidence using step-by-step daily lesson plans, activity overviews, and Unit Tests that support consistent, high-quality instruction.

Fundations K-3 lesson: Building the word

Simplify instruction with the Lesson Delivery Tool’s classroom-ready slides and detailed teacher notes to guide lesson flow. This optional tool helps teachers effortlessly deliver explicit, engaging instruction.

Fundations Level 1 resources page on Fun Hub, including getting started guide, teacher's manual, and interactivities.

Strengthen Structured Literacy expertise with convenient, on-demand professional learning on FUN HUB®.

Growing Together

High-quality curriculum paired with robust educator resources accelerates literacy growth. Fundations students were 2.3 times more likely to reach a higher benchmark level from beginning- to end-of-year assessments.

Fun Hub Unit Test Tracker for Fundations K-3 showing class overview and performance by unit.

Connect assessment to instruction with the Unit Test Tracker and direct access to Acadience® Reading K-6 data and Fundations instructional recommendations.

Fun Hub dashboard showing unit test tracker, student results, and literacy skills progress. Fundations K-3 resource.

Build a real-time picture of student progress with actionable data insights at the district, school, classroom, and student level through FUN HUB.

Improve outcomes with diagnostically planned instruction and targeted practice supported by time-saving supplemental resources and ready-to-use materials—including Tier 2 intervention.

Fundations K-3: Digital lesson for "The present is from Jan." with sentence building frames.

Introducing the Lesson Delivery Tool

A Powerful New Way to Deliver Fundations Instruction

The Lesson Delivery Tool empowers teachers at every experience level with classroom-ready slides, teacher notes, step-by-step guidance, annotation tools, and interactive elements designed to save prep time, streamline instruction, and boost teacher confidence. This optional resource engages K–3 students in age-appropriate, multimodal learning that moves beyond screens.

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