Cornerstone Literacy’s Interactive Model of Reading comes to life in The Foundation: Breaking the Code. The Foundation consists of research-based instructional strategies that have a positive impact on reading achievement. These strategies build knowledge and literacy skills around the six cueing systems: grapho-phonic, lexical, syntactic, semantic, schematic, and pragmatic.

The Foundation consists of seven essential units:

• A Literate Identity
• Oral Language
• Routines: Word Work
• Working with Text
• Reading & Thinking at the Surface
• Talking About Text
• Making Messages