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StarLIT® Print Awareness & Alphabet Knowledge Toolkit
Increase Alphabet Knowledge and Print Awareness Through Hands-On Learning
An Essential Resource for Tier 2 and Tier 3 Intervention!
Grades K–1Building on skills in our StarLIT Literacy Intervention Toolkit for Phonological Awareness, the activities in this kit help students move incrementally from recognizing individual letters to understanding that words carry meaning and make sentences.
StarLIT Print Awareness & Alphabet Knowledge—
- Provides 36 hands-on activities to increase alphabet knowledge and build print awareness
- Encourages involvement in the intervention process by families at home
- Gives teachers flexibility to differentiate instruction by selecting individual activities or a range of activities to re-teach skills
All You Need for Reliable, Effective Intervention in One Portable, Ready-to-Use Toolkit!

StarLIT Print Awareness & Alphabet Knowledge Intervention Toolkit includes—
- A 252-page Teacher’s Resource Guide with explicit instructional support and 36 step-by-step activities, lesson plans, and much more
- A 32-page Lesson Planner with a suggested sequence for delivering activities in three 30-minute intervention sessions
- *Learning Place® Game Cards and Rainbow Rumble™ to help students identify initial, medial, and final sounds and letters in words
- *Reading Rods® Alphabet and Picture Rods for alphabetical sequencing, identifying rimes, learning initial and final sounds of a word, and reading
new words - *VersaTiles® self-correcting practice activities to recognize environmental print, work with sentences, and understand capitalization and punctuation
- *Link ’N’ Spell® Magnetic Letters and Clip-itz™ Alphabet Cards for naming uppercase and lowercase letters, and recognizing alphabetical order
- *Reading Rods Game Mats to work with onsets and rimes, decode words, and create and read new words
- *InfoTrek® and SunSprouts® leveled readers and audio CDs to support students in recognizing first/last letter and directionality of letters and words, predicting, and developing an understanding of parts of books
*Hands-on student materials exclusive to ETA/Cuisenaire®

Teacher’s Resource Guide and Lesson Planner prepare educators to conduct successful early intervention lessons with:
- Explicit support for 36 lessons including suggested dialogue, materials lists, extension activities, and blackline masters
- Detailed lesson plans, record keeping, and teaching tips
- Up-to-date research on effective intervention strategies
- Strategies that meet the needs of English language learners
View sample Lessons and Planners.
Tailor StarLIT for Use in Tier 2 or Tier 3 of an RTI Framework

StarLIT Builds Prerequisite Skills for Beginning Reading
Alphabet Knowledge—
Print Awareness—
** Lesson Planner is available separately for previous purchases of StarLIT Print Awareness & Alphabet Knowledge Toolkit prior to January 2009. If you are purchasing the complete StarLIT Toolkit after January 2009, this resource is included.



