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Gateway Ratings Summary
ELA Kindergarten Overview
The Kindergarten materials partially meet the expectations for alignment to research-based practices and standards for foundational skills instruction. The materials provide systematic instruction in letter recognition, phonemic awareness, phonics, and high-frequency word instruction. They emphasize explicit teaching with tools like Sound-Spelling Cards and decodable texts. The materials include clear lesson sequences, frequent practice opportunities, and consistent teacher modeling. However, the materials lack comprehensive assessments, detailed corrective feedback for all skills, expanded spelling instruction, and explicit syllabication and morpheme analysis.