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BrighTGATE AT HOME: FREE K-2 LEARNING RESOURCES
Welcome to Our Home Learning Community
Explore parent-guided lessons across K–2 designed to build foundational literacy skills and reinforce other literacy skills through explicit instruction, meaningful conversation, read-alouds, movement, and hands-on learning at home. This original BrightGate at Home lesson series was developed by BrightGate Academy. Except for credited third-party resources, the lesson text, instructional sequence, and BrightGate-branded materials are the intellectual property of BrightGate Academy and are provided for personal, noncommercial educational use only.
What Your Child Will Practice
Kindergarten: Unit 1
BrightGate at Home offers clear, parent-guided Kindergarten literacy lessons grounded in the science of reading and informed by developmentally appropriate, play-based learning. Each lesson combines explicit phonological-awareness and phonics instruction with read-alouds, vocabulary, conversation, movement, and beginning writing.
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Across five parent-guided lessons, your child will practice:
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Recognizing and forming M/m, A/a, S/s, and T/t
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Connecting each letter with its most common sound
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Listening for beginning sounds in spoken words
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Blending and reading simple words such as am, at, Sam, mat, and sat
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Building vocabulary and comprehension through read-alouds
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Developing positive routines for learning at home
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More Ways to Practice at Home
These stand-alone literacy activities give families additional ways to practice important early reading skills. Each activity includes parent guidance and alignment with Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards. Choose the activity that best matches your child’s current learning needs—there is no required order.
Grade 1 Informational Text: Unit 1
Explore five parent-guided lessons that help first-grade learners use informational-text features, identify the topic and relevant details, compare information in words and visuals, retell key learning, and complete a short informational writing response. The unit is aligned with Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards.