Building Foundational Literacy: Beginnings is designed so that students begin reading words after learning just a few phonics elements. After learning the correspondences s/s/, m/m/, t/t/, and c/c/, students are introduced to a/a/ so that they can begin to form and read words, such as, at, cat, mat, sat. They also learn a few high-frequency words, such as, I see, on, and a, so that they can read sentences and stories using the words and skills that they have learned. • Beginnings pro