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Program information4
Developer and contact
Developed by J. Ron Nelson, Penny Cooper, and Jorge Gonzalez, Stepping Stones to Literacy is distributed by Sopris West. Address: 4093 Specialty Place, Longmont, CO 80504. Email: customerservice@sopriswest.com. Web: www.sopriswest.com. Telephone: (800) 547-6747.
Scope of use
No information on the scope of use or the demographic characteristics of program users is available.
Teaching
Stepping Stones to Literacy (SSL) comprises twenty-five, 10- to 20-minute lessons that supplement the regular reading curriculum. In each lesson, the teacher guides students through four to six sequenced activities to help students master five critical early literacy skill sets: listening, print conventions, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and serial processing/rapid naming. Students without deficits or with mild to moderate early literacy deficits are usually taught in small groups; students with significant early literacy deficits are taught individually. The curriculum includes a lesson book, with a separate section on serial rapid automatic naming activities (where children practice making quick visual-verbal associations of known sets of colors, numbers, and/or letter names in a left-to-right format), and instructional prompts in English and Spanish. Each of the 25 lessons begins with a set of nursery rhymes and follows with a set of sequenced instructional activities. Teachers use the model-lead-test instructional format. The teacher first models the target skill. Students replicate the example and practice the skill with assistance from the teacher. Teachers monitor student progress and re-teach the skill to students who do not fully master it. Lessons can also be repeated to help students fully master the early literacy skills taught.
Cost
The SSL kit is available from Sopris West for $223.49, which includes the lesson book and the instructor's guide.
