Know where you are going and how to get there by:

• Specifying literacy targets using SEEL's and your districts's curricula
• Focusing on skills that help children achieve targets
• Providing sufficient practice for learning
• Trusting the process and methods even if different from yours

SEEL instruction focuses on the way children prefer to learn by:

• Varying the presentation
• Involving the whole child in activites
• Incorporating intrigue and emotion
• Fostering hands-on exploration
• Hearing and using children's inputs
• Providing children with interesting ways to respond/practice

A child's confidence in his or her ability is established in the earliest learning experiences by:

• Assuring that all literacy targets and activities are developmentally appropriate
• Providing success in each teaching moment
• Focusing on individual needs

Students first blend sounds without print, then add letters written on manipulatives, then:

• Use rhyming skills to create printed words to signal meaning
• Add onsets to rimes to change meanings
• Select letters from alternatives to compose simple words
• Read words in meaningful contexts using onset and rime or cvc structure