Why it works

A comprehenisive, proven approach maximizes the effectiveness of the curriculum

TKS Bootcamp makes teaching easier and learning stronger.
✅ Students get a consistent, scaffolded routine that builds confidence and mastery.
✅ Teachers get more time to focus on students—not lesson planning.
✅ Schools get alignment, proven results, and empowered educators.

TKS Bootcamp = less stress, more success.

Data & Research

TKS Bootcamp is aligned to the science of reading and is  based on research called The Law Of 10-20 For Memory Sets discovered by Hal Pashler in 2006. This research says that the optimal review time for a skill is 10-20% of the time you want students to remember that skill.  We want students to remember letters and sounds for the school year.  An average school year is 180 days.  10-20 percent of 180 is 18-37 days.  26 days falls in the middle of that range.

180 days X 10-20% = 18-27 days
(A school year averages 180 days)

Therefore, the TKS Bootcamp curriculum is the optimal time to learn letters and sounds. This research carries throughout the entire TKS Bootcamp curriculum.  We also know that research says to teach phonics skills to mastery which takes 4-6 weeks for MOST students.  Each component of TKS BOOTCAMP falls in that 4-6 week timeframe (Wiley Blevins).

Each lesson in the TKS Bootcamp curriculum is explicit and systematic with students providing the words, numbers and equations through higher order thinking activities. Students have ample opportunity for independent practice and assessment.

TKS Bootcamp can be used as a core phonics and math curriculum for Tier 1 instruction, as well as MTSS or RTI program and Tier 2 instruction.a

Classroom-Proven

In a blind study of over 200 classrooms, with an average of 19 students per classroom, conducted at the conclusion of of the 2016-2017 school year, the results were achieved in ONLY 26 days!

TKS BOOTCAMP is used in classrooms across the country and around the world, impacting thousands of students and creating strong readers and writers.  This curriculum is helping to improve literacy (and math) scores and providing literacy FOR ALL!  

Available in 5 Themes

All five themes contain the same materials, just in different clipart. Click the images below to visit the creations in the TKS Store. (they are all also available in our TPT store)

ABC BOOTCAMP resources
Army Theme
science of reading resources for kindergarten
Monster Theme
SuperheroTheme
PREK alphabet curriculum
Safari Theme
sounds first phonics curriculum
No Theme

ALSO AVAILABLE IS A PHYSICAL PRODUCT!

The single best predictor of first-year reading achievement is the child’s knowledge of and the ability to recognize and name the upper- and lower- case letters of the alphabet (Adams, 1990; Honig, 1996; Riley, 1996).